The best known and most accessible, if not the foremost, biographer of England’s royal family.

Anyone looking for similar revelations in Morton’s new book, however, will be disappointed by his latest effort.

The Queen, a grab bag of anodyne anecdotes and Wikipedia-deep chronologies, doesn’t want to pin her down anyway. Like its subject, it just wants to sell itself.

A solid but somewhat lackluster look.

Morton writes with reverence about his subject and adds some personal touches to her story.