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A voyage around the queen
Brown, Craig, 1957-2024
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The world revolved around Queen Elizabeth II. Everyone was caught up in her orbit. Andy Warhol envied her. Michelle Obama was overawed by her. Jackie Kennedy resented her. Haile Selassie gave her a gold tiara. Virginia Woolf compared her to a caterpillar. Dirk Bogarde watched Death in Venice with her. E. M. Forster might have married her, if only she had been a boy. Idi Amin confided in her. On the day of her death, Jeanette Winterson got dressed in black, in preparation for the official announcement. She became a human looking-glass: the light cast by fame bounced off her and back onto everyone else. She mirrored our hopes and anxieties. To the optimist, she seemed an optimist; to the outsider, distant. To the cynic she was prosaic, and to the awestruck, charismatic. When people spoke of The Queen, they spoke of themselves; when they dreamed of her, they dreamed of themselves. Though by nature reserved and unassuming, in her presence rock stars were transformed into awkward schoolboys, dictators would tremble and Nobel Prize winners would start to talk gibberish. In a kaleidoscopic series of chapters, A Voyage Around the Queen finds her painted by Rolf Harris and Lucian Freud, celebrated in verse by Ted Hughes and John Betjeman, serenaded by Jimi Hendrix and tussling over a teapot with Mrs Thatcher.
Main title:
A voyage around the queen / Craig Brown.
Author:
Brown, Craig, 1957-, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2024.©2024
Collation:
662 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 641-655).
ISBN:
97800085575089780008557508978000855750897800085575089780008557492
Dewey class:
941.085092941.085
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
568571
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 941.085 ELI | Onloan - Due: 19 Oct 2024 |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 941.085 ELI | On Reserve Shelf - Awaiting collection within 10 days of this date. (Set: 20 Sep 2024) |
| Sandringham Library | Non Fiction | 941.085092 | On order |