Long Live the Queen

Bryan Kozlowski

Description

The Jane Austen Diet Phenomenon: Bryan’s last book, in the same category, was featured in Vogue, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many more lifestyle publications, purely due to his own elbow grease and charisma. He plans on doing all that and more with his second book!

Anglophiles and Royal Family Fanatics: The Queen has millions of fans around the world itching to get an inside look into her life. This will be a holiday must-have for royal family fans everywhere.

A Royal Lifestyle: Investigating the six lifestyle spheres that have kept Queen Elizabeth going strong for decades, readers will learn how to channel their inner royal – whether at work or the table - in this fascinating plunge into the House of Windsor’s famous fountain of youth.

God Save My Gracious Me
EAT LIKE A QUEEN
The Tupperware Lady
Queen of Scones
Tiaras if Possible
The Windsor Wets’ Club
WORK LIKE A QUEEN
The Most Excellent Order of Order
The Buckingham System
Airs and Graces
Vive le Devoir
PLAY LIKE A QUEEN
Her Majesty’s Pleasure
Fit to Rule
Tweedy Mode
Hibernate
THINK LIKE A QUEEN
The Merry Stoics of Windsor
Ostriching
View from Above
Stinking Willie
LOVE LIKE A QUEEN
Noblesse Oblige
Off With Their Heads
Some One Else
AGE LIKE A QUEEN
Radiance
Jubilee Me
The Marmite Theory
London Bridge
Appendix: The 23 Queen Be’s

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• Santé du quotidien
• Personal Growth
• Social Science
• Popular Culture
• health
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Elizabeth II
• Long Live the Queen
• Longevity
• House of Windsor
• General officer
• British Royal Family
• Élisabeth II du Royaume-Uni
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 10 novembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781684425464
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

PRAISE FOR LONG LIVE THE QUEEN
This book could not be more timely. As our world seems to be falling apart around us, demanding sacrifice, self-control and the courage to carry on, Bryan Kozlowski presents us with the salutary example of a woman who has lived a life of purpose and discipline in the service of something greater than herself. Thoroughly conversant with the serious and popular literature on the Queen, and much else besides, he writes in a style so engaging and fun that one might miss his very serious and useful message for our times.
-Robert Bucholz, professor of history, Loyola University, Chicago
Long Live the Queen! made me feel like I was eavesdropping on Oscar Wilde, the Queen Mum, and Malcolm Gladwell at one of Her Majesty s garden parties. Witty, charming, historically astute, often wickedly funny and always genuinely inspiring, Bryan Kozlowski surprises readers on every page with adroit insight into Queen Elizabeth II s life and practical applications for royal improvements to our own. Whether you re an ingenue intrigued by The Crown or a lifelong loyal subject of the sovereign, Long Live the Queen! is a must-read.
-Dudley Delffs, author of The Faith of Queen Elizabeth
With reverence and humor, Bryan Kozlowski has written an intriguing rationale for why Queen Elizabeth is so long-lived. Part biography, part self-help, this look at Her Majesty through 23 Rules for Living is a fun- and instructional-read for a wider audience than just royal watchers.
-Anne Easter Smith, author of A Rose for the Crown, Queen by Right , and This Son of York
With Queen Elizabeth II securing her status as longest-reigning monarch in the world, Bryan Kozlowski s book comes at an opportune moment. Equally entertaining and erudite, Long Live the Queen! explores what keeps this 94-year-old going. Her rules, it turns out, might well just apply to all of us.
-Arianne Chernock, associate professor of history, Boston University Scientifically fascinating, beautifully written and immensely practical, Kozlowski s compelling narrative is a book I recommend to all my patients. His meticulous research has unveiled the 23 most important steps to vibrant health and lasting vitality-presented as a thrilling page-turner.
-Dr. Helena Popovic, author of NeuroSlimming: Let Your Brain Change Your Body
Engaging, insightful, and wonderfully grounding at a time when the world needs it most. Long Live the Queen allows readers a thoroughly enjoyable peek inside the life of the most famous woman on Earth and lets us in on the secrets to her tremendous health and success for over nine decades .From page one, Kozlowski s words had me believing that a brighter, more serene future lies ahead. It s not her servants or her position that make Queen Elizabeth s life remarkable-it s the simplicity and sense of purpose with which she lives each day. I intend to read this book several times in the coming years as a touchstone in my personal quest for a calm yet more productive life.
-Melanie Summers, author of The Royal Treatment
As someone who has specialized in Queen Elizabeth I, I found Long Live the Queen! , about the second Queen Elizabeth a great pleasure to read. The author offers advice on how to eat, play, work, love, and possibly the most useful, age like a queen This is a book to delight all who are interested in the monarchy.
-Carole Levin, professor of history, University of Nebraska, author of The Heart and Stomach of a King
In depth research combined with expert commentary and humor gives insight into the Queen s character and royal rituals, helping explain just why she has ruled so long.
-Becky Libourel Diamond, research historian, author of The Thousand Dollar Dinner
Entertaining and insightful an engaging royal guide to life!
-Dr. Carolyn Harris, author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting
Long Live the Queen!
T URNER P UBLISHING C OMPANY
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L ONG L IVE THE Q UEEN
Copyright 2020 Bryan Kozlowski
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Cover design: Lauren Peters-Collaer
Text design and composition by Karen Sheets de Gracia in the Palace Script, Mrs Eaves, and Adobe Garamond typefaces.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Upon Request
P RINTED IN THE U NITED S TATES OF A MERICA
20 21 22 23 24 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Live Long the Queen!
23 RULES FOR LIVING
FROM BRITAIN S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH
Bryan Kozlowski
For Kristin, the loveliest sister in the land .
What do you mean by If you really are a Queen ?
What right have you to call yourself so?
You ca n t be a Queen, you know, till
you ve passed the proper examination.
And the sooner we begin it, the better.
-Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
Contents
I NTRODUCTION God Save My Gracious Me
EAT LIKE A QUEEN
The Tupperware Lady
Queen of Scones
Tiaras if Possible
The Windsor Wets Club
WORK LIKE A QUEEN
The Most Excellent Order of Order
The Buckingham System
Airs and Graces
Vive le Devoir
PLAY LIKE A QUEEN
Her Majesty s Pleasure
Fit to Rule
Tweedy Mode
Hibernate
THINK LIKE A QUEEN
The Merry Stoics of Windsor
Ostriching
View from Above
Stinking Willie
LOVE LIKE A QUEEN
Noblesse Oblige
Off with Their Heads
Some One Else
AGE LIKE A QUEEN
Radiance
Jubilee Me
The Marmite Theory
London Bridge
A PPENDIX: The 23 Queen Be s
Source Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
G OD S AVE M Y G RACIOUS M E
O R , T HE W HITE M AGIC OF W INDSOR
As far as I can see, some people have to be fed royalty like sea-lions fish .
-L ADY S TRATHMORE, MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF E LIZABETH II
I t s a curious sensation, to those who have felt it. So very much like a high, one is tempted to begin with a drug-related analogy (though I m wary of mixing up narcotics with Her Majesty s good name). And what would be an appropriate royal parallel? It feels like a drop of ecstasy in a bracing cup of Earl Grey? I didn t think to record the particulars the first time I experienced it, or imagine how much it would change the way I live. The whole thing began so inauspiciously. Come to think of it, it caught me as unaware as most mind-altering highs usually catch out naive new initiates-half asleep and in my pajamas.
I remember it was early, very early, on the morning of April 29, 2011, otherwise known as the wedding day of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. Feeling like a groggy version of Ethelred the Unready, I wasn t quite sure what I was doing up at this hour, stumbling in the dark to turn on the television, momentarily blinded by the frenzied mass of waving Union Jacks. It certainly wasn t due to any obsession with the royal family whom, at the moment, I was finding slightly hard to forgive for arranging the whole wedding of the century thing in the morning, without apparent thought for the inconvenience posed on their ex-colonists across the pond. At the time, I was no more intrigued by the workings of royalty than a rush-hour commuter is intrigued by the occasional glimpse of a rainbow across the freeway. It was pretty when it popped out from its lofty abode, and I was content to simply stare. To watch the pageantry of a royal wedding, to be just another spectator of this ancient, beautiful and, perhaps, rather silly spectacle was good enough for me. And when all the hoohah was over, to promptly stumble back to bed was my only ambition. I was not one of Lady Strathmore s sea-lions barking for more. Or so I thought. But oh no; this royal rainbow had its way with me.
As the dawn rose and the Abbey choirboys sang and the trumpets blared and the sea of fascinators bobbed merrily in their pews, some sort of strange magic took over. If I may briefly sound like a spacey druid, that morning Westminster Abbey felt like a power outlet, pulsating sheer joy, the heart of euphoria on earth, and I was plugged in, baby! I felt more alive, more human, more capable of checking off whatever to-do list I could possibly dream up. I might even have attempted a semi-successful cartwheel to mark the occasion, something which normally filled me with bodily dread. But I didn t analyze the experience or chalk it up to anything more than simply the thrill of watching a live television event (with the cross-reference thought that, yes, perhaps I needed to get out more).
The encounter would have passed me by entirely if it wasn t for the premier, years later, of a little show on Netflix called The Crown