In 2011 the world will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Queen
- one of the most innovative glamorous & influential bands in history.
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With a career spanning three decades & album sales topping 150 million worldwide they continue to fascinate fans & music lovers with their stories of legendary parties outrageous lifestyles turbulent affairs & outstanding musical achievements. Queen: The definitive biography is a comprehensive history of this important b&. Laura Jackson has carried out exclusive interviews with members of Queen many of their close friends & several of the worlds leading rock musicians including Sir Cliff Richard Richie Sambora Gary Glitter John Peel Malcolm McLaren Bruce Dickenson Peter Stringfellow Richard Branson Trevor Francis & Nigel Planer. She turns the spotlight onto the private lives professional struggles & personal triumphs of all four band members from Freddie Mercurys reckless affairs & flamboyantly gay lifestyle to the intensely private bass player John Deacon & from Brian Mays emotional excesses to Roger Taylors sexual scandals. Laura Jackson

Includes:: a frank & compelling account of Mercurys illness & eventual death from AIDS & examines the impact this had on his friends & family & what it meant for the b&.

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The Queen & I" is the brilliantly funny novel by Sue Townsend author of the " Adrian Mole" series. The Monarchy Has Been Dismantled. When a Republican party wins the General Election their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets & titles & send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bed roomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it) caviar for boiled eggs servants for a social worker named Trish the Queen & her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. " No other author could imagine this so graphically demolish the institution so wittily & yet leave the family with its human dignity intact". (" The Times"). " Absorbing entertaining.. .the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole". (Ruth Rendell " Daily Telegraph"). " Kept me rolling about until the last page". (" Daily Mail"). Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight " Adrian Mole" books " The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 55 )" " Number Ten" " Ghost Children" " The Queen & I" " Queen Camilla" & " The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year" all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up." ...

Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey the latest book from expert authors Chris Frame & Rachelle Cross allows the reader to travel aboard Cunard's newest ship the second largest ship to carry the Cunard colours. The ultimate in luxury cruising awaits aboard Queen Elizabeth. From the three-storey Royal Court Theatre complete with box seating to the opulence of the Queens Room the authors have captured the interior elegance of Queen Elizabeth with never-before-published images. Explore the behind-the-scenes areas with a tour of the Engine Room Stores & The Bridge before returning to the passenger areas to discover bars lounges restaurants & cabins. Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey is a must-have whether you're a seasoned Cunard passenger or simply an armchair traveller. Written by two enthusiastic Cunard fans travellers & historians this book is beautifully illustrated with over 200 colour photographs &

Includes:: a foreword by Peter Shanks President of the Cunard Line an interview with Captain Burgess & a contribution from Captain Chris Wells Queen Elizabeth's First Master. This is Chris Frame & Rachelle Cross' sixth Cunard book & the fourth in their Journey series.

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Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication the Blitz & World War Two the sex & spy scandals of the swinging sixties the Cold War & the nuclear threat & the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK & Ronald Reagan & other world leaders like President Mandela & Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill & Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron the last only ten years older than her grandson. Her own family experiences a mixture of happiness & crisis weddings & divorces & in the case of Diana violent death have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years. Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors: the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre earning the respect of monarchists & republicans. How has she done it? ...

Photographer costume designer avid diarist
- Cecil Beaton was also a romantic royalist whose glittering photographs of Queen Elizabeth
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Elizabeth II has lived through the Abdication the Blitz & World War Two the sex & spy scandals of the swinging sixties the Cold War & the nuclear threat & the Fall of the Berlin Wall. She has known 11 US Presidents including JFK & Ronald Reagan & other world leaders like President Mandela & Pope John XXII. Her Prime Ministers have ranged from Winston Churchill & Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron the last only ten years older than her grandson. Her own family experiences a mixture of happiness & crisis weddings & divorces & in the case of Diana violent death have been lived in the glare of tabloid headlines. More than 2 billion people watched the wedding of her grandson Prince William to Catherine Middleton in 2010 shortly before she made the first State Visit to Ireland by a British monarch for 100 years. Our world has changed more in her lifetime than in any of her predecessors: the Queen has remained a calm presence at the centre earning the respect of monarchists & republicans. How has she done it? ...

The year 2012 marks the 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeths ascension to the British throne making her the second longest reigning monarch in British history! To commemorate this special occasion weve created an elegant mini ceramic plate with gilded edge royal insignia inscription & images of Her Majesty on her special day 60 years ago & today. The accompanying easel stand plus 48 page booklet make it the perfect keepsake. ...