Bryan Kozlowski - Long Live the Queen - 23 Rules for Living from Britain’s Longest-Reigning Monarch

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 Majestys 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 IIs life and practical applications for royal improvements to our own. Whether youre 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 instructionalread 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 Kozlowskis 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, Kozlowskis 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 vitalitypresented 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, Kozlowskis words had me believing that a brighter, more serene future lies ahead. Its not her servants or her position that make Queen Elizabeths life remarkableits 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 queenThis 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 Queens 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 insightfulan engaging royal guide to life!

Dr. Carolyn Harris, author of Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting

Long Live the Queen!

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Live Long the Queen!

23 RULES FOR LIVING

FROM BRITAINS 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 cant be a Queen, you know, till

youve passed the proper examination.

And the sooner we begin it, the better.

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Contents

GOD SAVE MY GRACIOUS ME

OR, THE WHITE MAGIC OF WINDSOR

As far as I can see, some people have to be fed royalty like sea-lions fish.

LADY STRATHMORE, MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER OF ELIZABETH II

I ts 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 Im wary of mixing up narcotics with Her Majestys 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 didnt 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 initiateshalf 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 wasnt 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 wasnt 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