Author and essayist Craig Brown is perhaps best known for his sketch comedy writing and satirical columns poking fun at the British government. But he's also a biographer, having written about ...

British historian Anna Keay has been appointed as the official biographer of Queen Elizabeth II. (1926-2022). Buckingham Palace announced this shortly before the late Queen's 100th birthday. As part ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly four years on from her 2022 death, Queen Elizabeth's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) has been ...

For any author, pre-publication attention is an infinitely precious commodity. So it must have been with great delight that Craig Brown, the British satirist, learned last month that his book “Q: A ...

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, in ...

Queen Elizabeth II wears a diamond diadem decorated with symbolic roses, shamrocks and thistle at the state opening of Parliament in London in 1998. (Tim Graham/Corbis/Getty Images) Review by Clare ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s reported reaction to Princess Diana ’s death reveals their fraught relationship at the end.

Donald Trump was well known for lavishing praise on Queen Elizabeth II, but it appears that the feeling was not mutual. A new biography of the late British monarch, penned by Craig Brown, casts light ...

While Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were not typically ones for public displays of affection, Philip was once caught ...

The biographer chosen will likely have access to the late Queen’s diaries as they write about her life Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty King Charles is expected to appoint an official biographer soon to write ...

RICHARD DIMBLEBY: In this garment of white, in such contrast to the splendors about her, she will move for the first time to King Edward's chair. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: In 1953, Elizabeth Windsor was ...