Queen Elizabeth II

摘要

This U.S. title (UK title: Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People) is misleading. What Marr {The Making of Modem Britain), host of an eponymous BBC Sunday morning interview program, offers up is an enjoyable book about the British monarchy as embodied by Queen Elizabeth II, who will celebrate her Diamond Jubilee-the 60th anniversary of her accession-next June. There are no intimate revelations and no unmasking of the Queen as different from what we'd guessed. Quite the contrary, Marr reinforces our sense of Queen Elizabeth as a woman of constancy, possessed of enormous endurance and self-discipline.