The Queen and us

'...a unique quality of authenticity...the book has perfect pitch.'

 — Peregrine  Worsthorne, THE SPECTATOR

2012 marks Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, the 60th anniversary of her coronation. In The Queen & Us, first published in 2003, Nigel Nicolson writes about changes that have taken place in the public’s attitude to the royal family during his lifetime, and their response to those changes.

Now with a new introduction by Charles Anson CVO, Former Press Secretary to The Queen, the book explores questions like What is the Queen like? What does she do? What is the future of the monarchy? In answering these questions, Nicolson draws on his own memories of the royal family, public and private, and on the diaries of his father, Sir Harold Nicolson, who wrote the official biography of George V and witnessed at first hand the drama of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.