In Part One of this special two-part edition of Dead Famous, we go back to the beginning: a quiet royal childhood transformed by an unexpected abdication, the war years that shaped her extraordinary sense of duty, her marriage to Prince Philip, and the sudden death of her father that placed the Crown on her head at just 25 years old.
We follow Elizabeth through the first four decades of an unprecedented reign — from the fading British Empire and the birth of the modern Commonwealth to Aberfan, royal intruders, political tensions, changing attitudes towards the monarchy and the arrival of a young Diana Spencer.
For forty years, Elizabeth weathered almost everything by following the same formula: remain calm, reveal little and carry on.
But by the early 1990s, the greatest threat to her reign was about to come from inside her own family.
And you don't have to wait for the conclusion — Part Two is available right now.
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