{"id":323241,"date":"2026-03-01T10:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323241\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:07:24","slug":"the-queen-100-years-100-stories-by-michelle-morgan-enjoyable-biography-is-both-gushing-and-eye-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/323241\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Michelle Morgan: Enjoyable biography is both gushing and eye-opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBeside the embarrassments caused by some of her children, Michelle Morgan\u2019s book is not all heavy going with plenty to interest even those ambivalent to the British royals\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Queen Elizabeth II in 2011. Photo: Eddie Mulholland\/WPA Pool\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7a07be71-9f01-4bb9-94e7-e0583b9965e5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Queen Elizabeth II in 2011. Photo: Eddie Mulholland\/WPA Pool\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Some people in public life eventually become so iconic that their name is instantly recognisable, even in shorthand. If you mentioned \u201cthe queen\u201d at any point over the last 70 years everyone knew who you meant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Not the queen of Spain or Netherlands, not the Queen of Hearts, not the Freddie Mercury band; you\u2019re obviously talking about Queen Elizabeth II of England. Only the most performatively \u201cbarstool republican\u201d \u2013 a tedious breed, best avoided in conversation \u2013 would pretend they don\u2019t know who you\u2019re referring to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beside the embarrassments caused by some of her children, Michelle Morgan\u2019s book is not all heavy going with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12207,93,61,60,60341,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-323241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-darragh-mcmanus","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-queen-elizabeth","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}