Margaret Thatcher was very nervous of the late Queen and was mocked for her curtsey. Meghan Markle was celebrated for hers. Some of the revelations in Craig Brown’s upcoming biography about the ...

John Brown, a Scottish gillie who had previously accompanied Victoria when horse riding at Balmoral before she was widowed, managed to break through societal boundaries and befriend the Queen.

Brown, who was then 21 and had grown up locally, was working as a ghillie on the estate and was made leader of the queen's pony by Albert, a role which saw him accompany Victoria as she rode out.

Besides, in a popularity contest, Golda Rosheuvel's Queen would defeat the King on any ... Augusta quite plainly is not. "She is very brown," George's mother stiffly tells the assembled men ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Craig Brown about "Q: The Voyage Around the Queen," a biography of Queen Elizabeth II told in vignettes and observations. RICHARD DIMBLEBY: In this garment of white ...

When she was 40, what did her friends think of her? In Craig Brown’s new book, Voyage around the Queen, he points out Her Maj’s life has been so faithfully chronicled, that even anti ...

What’s left to say?” And it’s true that Craig Brown’s “Q: A Voyage Around the Queen” joins more than 50 biographies of Elizabeth II. Yet Brown sets out to do something distinct ...

The queen kept a diary every day of her life, Brown noted. The Princess Diana biographer also said that while current Queen Camilla would likely never pen a book of her own, she “has seen it all ...