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King Charles wants female author for Queen’s biography<\/p>\n King Charles wants female author for Queen’s biography<\/p>\n
King Charles is preparing to honour his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in a deeply personal way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By commissioning it is set to become the first official, authorised biography of the monarch who defined a generation.<\/p>\n
The King is said to have taken a clear stance on one key detail that he wants the book to be written by a woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A royal source revealed that His Majesty felt strongly the commission should go in that direction, adding a thoughtful layer to a project already steeped in significance.<\/p>\n
The task has reportedly been entrusted to Jane Keay, a respected historian and author with strong ties to royal circles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beyond her credentials, she also serves as a trustee of the Royal Collection Trust, responsible for overseeing the monarch\u2019s extensive private art collection.<\/p>\n
Her connections extend further through her husband, Simon Thurley, who chairs the National Lottery Heritage Fund and is known to share a longstanding friendship with the King.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The couple live in a historic Grade I-listed home in King\u2019s Lynn, just a short distance from Sandringham, one of the late Queen\u2019s most beloved estates.<\/p>\n
Keay will be granted rare and privileged access to Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s personal papers, carefully preserved over decades by Paul Whybrew, her trusted Page of the Backstairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While no publication date has been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles wants female author for Queen’s biography King Charles is preparing to honour his late mother, Queen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-193505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}