Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen: A gorgeously illustrated gift book celebrating Her Majesty's platinum jubilee

Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen is a celebration of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, showing her qualities of duty, self-sacrifice, and love of country from an early age. Written by A.N. Wilson, it imagines the Queen reflecting on her early life, including her discovery of her heirship at ten, her meeting with Prince Phillip, and her sense of vocation and public duty. The book is praised for its detail and conversations that bring to life those who have been most important to the Queen.

Format: Hardback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

A.N. Wilson, one of England's most beloved writers, imagines the Queen reflecting on her early life. We watch as she discovers, at the tender age of ten, that she is heir to the throne. We witness her meet the dashing Prince Phillip of Greece, who she loved steadfastly from the age of fifteen, and see their friendship blossom into passionate love. Above all, we learn of her astonishing sense of vocation and public duty, which grew during the dark years of WWII and her father's subsequent years of ill health.

Honouring the life of Her Majesty the Queen and her illustrious reign, Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen is by turns funny, tender and heartfelt. Superb... captures our Queen better than any biography - Sunday Telegraph. It's packed with detail and conversations that bring to life all those who have been most important to her. - Daily Mail.

Lilibet: A carefree child, a lover of horses and dogs, devoted to her family. And the girl who would be Queen.

The moments in life of knowing. On Bognor Beach, with Grandpa England, she had known that he, and Papa, and she, would carry something on, something given, something bigger than themselves.

Lilibet: a carefree child, a lover of horses and dogs, devoted to her family. And the girl who would be Queen.

A.N. Wilson, one of England's most beloved writers, imagines the Queen reflecting on her early life. We watch as she discovers, at the tender age of ten, that she is heir to the throne. We witness her meet the dashing Prince Phillip of Greece, who she loved steadfastly from the age of fifteen, and see their friendship blossom into passionate love. Above all, we learn of her astonishing sense of vocation and public duty, which grew during the dark years of WWII and her father's subsequent years of ill health.

Honouring the life of Her Majesty the Queen and her illustrious reign, Lilibet: The Girl Who Would be Queen is by turns funny, tender and heartfelt. Superb... captures our Queen better than any biography - Sunday Telegraph. It's packed with detail and conversations that bring to life all those who have been most important to her. - Daily Mail.

Weight: 198g
Dimension: 135 x 204 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786582423