PEOPLE Special Edition - Queen Elizabeth II: Her Long Life & Remarkable Reign, How William & Kate Carry On Her Legacy

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor performed her royal duties with unwavering fidelity, boosting morale during World War II as a princess and for 70 years as Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in the nation’s history. Until her death at 96, through decades of tumultuous change—as well family scandals and personal loss—she remained a constant, a unifying figure without parallel on the world stage. Through stunning photography and rich storytelling, this keepsake edition from PEOPLE delivers her extraordinary life in full. While the Queen was famously reserved and unfailingly correct, she was uniquely beloved for her humanity, warmth, and dry wit. She loved corgis, gin cocktails, horses, and Prince Philip, her husband of 73 years, who died at 99 in 2021. She became a fan of Downton Abbey and kept a throw pillow at Balmoral, her estate in Scotland, that read, “It’s good to be Queen!” She may now be gone, but she is hardly forgotten, as this one-of-kind volume makes clear.