As we approach the Platinum Jubilee, celebrating the Queen’s unprecedented 70 years on the throne, we face the prospect of drowning under a flood of new books published to mark the occasion. Among the earliest in the field are the two under review. Apart from their price, their length, and the fact that they both depend heavily on interviews (attributed and unattributed) with members of the royal household, politicians, and people in the know, they could hardly be more different from one another.
Queen of Our Times is Robert Hardman’s third book about the Queen, following Our Queen (2012) and Queen of the World (2018), both linked to television films of the same name. An experienced commentator for the BBC on royal occasions, Hardman is a former royal correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and now writes for the Daily Mail. He knows more than most about the royal family, and has interviewed pretty well every member of it except the Queen herself.
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