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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 60 years on the throne this summer. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Kate Williams has written the first book to focus on the Queen’s early life before she acceded to the throne. Williams looks at the sheltered upbringing of a princess who did not know she was destined to be Queen. She examines the relationships with her father, her domineering mother and with her nanny, Marion ‘Crawfie’ Crawford. And she explains the profound impact of the abdication crisis when Elizabeth, at the age of 11, suddenly found herself heir to the throne.

Williams is a biographer, novelist and historian who appears regularly on radio and TV, including as social historian on BBC’s Restoration Home. She has written biographies about Emma Hamilton and the young Queen Victoria, and a historical novel, The Pleasures of Men.