POD Save the Queen!

Hello and welcome to POD Save the Queen.

I'm your host Zoe Forsee and we have a very special episode for you this week.

And I am joined by Royal Biographer Andrew Morton to talk through his new book, The Queen, and yeah, all the great stories in that. So, hi Andrew, how are you?

Good morning. Great to talk to you. It's so lovely to have you on the show and

we're really excited to hear all about the new book. So why have you decided

obviously you've written about so many members of the Royal Family. Why did you decide to do the Queen for this book?

Yes, I've written some 25 books over a career of 40 years and I've tackled the Queen obliquely as it were. I did a I TV

documentary about her several years ago and then my last book Elizabeth and

Margaret was about the intimate life of the Windsor

sisters. So that gave me an insight into her growing up and her days during the war.

And I thought, well, I mean, it's her Jubilee,

go for the big one.

Why not?

And as you said, you've written so many biographies over the years.

How did you get into it. How did you start?

Well I always wanted to be a political reporter and then one day my editor called me in and said well you can look over crowd you know how to spell

Prince Philip you're going to be on that world correspondent and so that was back in 1982 in those halcyon days.

And my first ever job was chasing Prince Andrew,

who was then the world's most eligible bachelor and an actress, an American actress, not Megan Markle, but a girl called Catherine Stark to the island of Mustique where they traveled under a assumed married name, Mr. and Mrs. Cambridge.

And the whole world, because they thought that the world's most eligible royal bachelor and

secretly married this American actress.

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