About the book: On the centenary of her birth, Elizabeth II is a delightful, intimate new portrait of the late Queen from bestselling biographer and royal commentator Robert Hardman, which is full of fresh details about this extraordinary woman.
As daughter, wife, mother and Sovereign, Elizabeth II lived fascinating parallel lives, both in private and in public. But she remained something of a mystery – beloved, even revered, modest yet daunting, naturally shy but globally recognizable, inscrutable and also authentic. She was grand but so familiar that we felt we knew her.
Yet we would always be left asking the same question: ‘What’s she really like?’ No one has written more authoritatively on Elizabeth II than Robert Hardman. Who better to answer that question?
The only biographer to have interviewed all the senior members of the Royal Family, some of them several times, Hardman has crafted a gripping story of drama, devotion, triumph, tragedy, humour and conflict; of an outwardly stoical, inwardly complex woman whose love of family, love of country and duty to the Crown might pull her in different directions but never derailed her; a global stateswoman who wielded her great authority with charm and understatement.
Authoritative, poignant and gloriously entertaining, Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story (2026) will explain why she was not merely the most famous woman in the world. She was one of history’s all-time greats.
Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story will be on sale from 9 April 2026.
About the author: Robert Hardman is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster, specialising in royalty and history for three decades. His 2024 biography, Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story, was an instant No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller; a new and fully updated edition was published in November 2024. His previous 2022 biography, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II (published by Macmillan) was an international bestseller, acclaimed for its exclusive access to world leaders, to unseen family papers and documents in the Royal Archives and to those who know the Queen best. Hardman’s previous books include Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, Our Queen and Queen of the World. All have been accompanied by prime-time television documentaries of the same name. Among other television credits, Hardman wrote and presented the BBC documentary ‘George III – The Genius of the Mad King’ and wrote the BBC One series, ‘The Queen’s Castle’.
He has conducted many interviews with the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, together with most members of the Royal Family. Other royal interviewees include the Queen of Denmark, the King of Norway and Emperor Akihito of Japan. Most recently, Hardman wrote and co-produced BBC One’s ‘Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers’, which included interviews with all the Queen’s children and grandchildren. He is also an award-winning newspaper journalist for the Daily Mail in London.
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