A fascinating royal biography sheds new light on Queen Elizabeth's remarkable stoicism in the last months of her life, how she didn't hesitate to 'fire' her own son – and found comfort after her husband's death by watching .Written by author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait – which is serialised in as well as tomorrow's Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday – is littered with fascinating vignettes about our longest-serving but still so enigmatic sovereign.Mr Brandreth, who occupies a unique position as a friend and biographer of the , reveals how told a lady-in-waiting that she was determined to keep busy as it helped her cope with the loss in April last year of Philip, her husband of 73 years.
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