Historian Tapped for Queen Elizabeth Biography

0:00It's April 19, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and trending. King Charles just tapped historian Anna Key to pin the official biography of his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II. This 53-year-old award winner gets unprecedented access to the royal archives, including personal papers and docs from her 70-year. Rain. She'll also chat with family members and close insiders who knew the Queen best. Key's no stranger to royal history. She studied at Oxford, curated at historic royal palaces back in the 90s in early 2000s and runs. The landmark trust now. Her books like The Restless Republic, which snagged the Duff Cooper Prize last year, dive deep into Britain's past, crowns, and rebels. The palace mulled this over for years, picking her from big names like Simon Sabag Montefiorre. Key calls it a profound honor, saying the Queen lived through a century of massive change, and she's grateful for the trust to tell her story right.

1:00Word is, this bile my roll out in multiple volumes, starting with her early decades the sidestepped touchy recent stuff like family dramas. The late Queen kept the handwritten diary nightly for about 15 minutes, but skipped recorded interviews. Key's already on the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee, heading to a British Museum event next week for memorial designs, so expect this project to weave into bigger tributes as it unfolds.