Philip Hensher

The trivial details about royalty are what really fascinate us

Craig Brown’s focus on specifics that other biographers would consider beneath them brings rich rewards

The future Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral in 1952 with one of her corgis. [Getty Images]
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  • A Voyage Around the Queen

    Craig Brown

    4th Estate, pp. 672, £25

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