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Through his friendship with the Duke of Edinburgh, he was given privileged access to Elizabeth II. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Paints a unique picture of the remarkable woman who reigned for seven decades. 'The book overflows with nuggets of insider knowledge' TELEGRAPH 'The writer who got closest to the human truth about our long-serving senior royals' THE TIMES Rajesh Agrawal, deputy mayor of London for business, chairman and chief executive, RationalFX currency exchange service (2005-16), 46 Paul Beatty, author, The Sellout (the first American to win the Man Booker prize, 2016), 61 Matt Bellamy, musician, Muse, Supermassive Black Hole (2006), 45 Mick Box, musician, lead guitarist, Uriah Heep, 76 Patricia Cornwell, novelist, Postmortem (1990), the Scarpetta book series, 67 Johnny Depp, actor, the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Murder on the Orient Express (2017), 60 Nell Dunn, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, Poor Cow (1967), Up the Junction (1968), 87 Sir Andrew Edis, lord justice of appeal, 66 Air Vice-Marshal Simon Edwards, assistant chief of the Air Staff (strategy), Ministry of Defence, 52 Michael J Fox, actor, the Back to the Future film series, and founder, Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, 62 Richard Hudson, stage designer, The Lion King (1998 Tony award), 69 James Kelman, novelist, How Late It Was, How Late (1994, Booker prizewinner), Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter (2021), 77 Sir Nicholas Lloyd, chairman, strategic consultancy BLJ, editor, the Daily Express (1986-95), 81 Michael Mates, Conservative MP (1974-2010), 89 Natalie Portman, actress, Black Swan (2010), Jackie (2016), 42 Prof Sir George Radda, biochemist, chief executive, Medical Research Council (1996-2003), pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance in biological imaging, 87 Charles Saatchi, advertising executive and art collector, 80 Will Satch, oarsman, Olympic gold medallist (2016), 34 Anoushka Shankar, sitarist, 42 Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter, The West Wing (1999-2006), The Social Network (2010, Oscar), and playwright, A Few Good Men (1989), 62 David Troughton, actor, A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-88), Tony Archer in The Archers, 73.A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best