Elizabeth II and the Loves of Her Life

On April 17, 2021, Elizabeth II had to say goodbye to Prince Philip at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. The Duke of Edinburgh had been her rock for more than seventy years. The morning after the funeral, she flips through her diaries and reviews her eventful life. With the pictures of her grandchildren in front of her, she recalls her own childhood, the preparations for her future role as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth, and how she was suddenly thrown into assuming responsibility for the Royal House at a very young age and considered encouraging her citizens in times of crisis by being a symbol of stability and holding the Windsor family together as her primary task.

Gabriele Diechler retells the life of an epoch-making woman whom we meet as a mother and a sister, a mother-in-law and later a great-grandmother – but not least of all as a queen who knew how to be a symbol of unity in an uncertain world like no other. This is what she saw as her duty throughout her life, in the service of the crown and of love.