{"id":202450,"date":"2026-04-19T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202450\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:12:19","slug":"british-royals-choose-historian-to-write-queen-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202450\/","title":{"rendered":"British royals choose historian to write queen biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">LONDON \u2013 Britain\u2019s royal family said on April 19 that historian Anna Keay will write an official biography of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/queen-elizabeth-iis-funeral-related-events-cost-271m-uk-govt?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September 2022<\/a> after more than 70 years on the throne.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">King Charles III wanted a woman to write the definitive account of his mother\u2019s life, according to British media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dr Keay, best known for her work chronicling Britain\u2019s Republican period between 1649 and 1660, said receiving the job is a \u201cprofound honour\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She will have access to Queen Elizabeth\u2019s personal and official papers held in the Royal Archives, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She will also be able to talk to members of the royal family and the queen\u2019s friends and household staff, the palace added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dr Keay described Queen Elizabeth as \u201can extraordinary woman, whose life spanned a century of great change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cI am deeply grateful to His Majesty The King for entrusting me with this responsibility and for granting me access to her papers, and will do all I can to do justice to her life and work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Official royal biographies can sometimes reveal unexpected details about the subject\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Sir William Shawcross\u2019 official biography of Queen Elizabeth\u2019s mother, the wife of George VI, revealed how she suffered from bowel cancer in her 60s but was successfully treated. AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2013 Britain\u2019s royal family said on April 19 that historian Anna Keay will write an official biography&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-202450","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\/202450","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=202450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}