👑 AN Wilson has turned his anonymous 1984 epic poem Lilibet into a novel, which captures the Queen better than any official biography
It is the night before the Platinum Jubilee. The Queen is falling asleep, perhaps falling into the Big Sleep. “She was in that state between sleep and waking, between consciousness and a greater dark.” As she drifts off into the velvet blackness, her mind is filled with memories and visions – and it is AN Wilson’s contention, in this biographical novel, that Her Majesty is the same in her 90s as she was aged nine, “jigsaw-crazy, pony-mad, prayerful… a little cold”.
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