A look back at ten momentous and demanding days in the Queen's life - days that helped to define what her role as sovereign meant for both herself and the country - from the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 to the Suez Crisis, the murder of Lord Mountbatten, and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Featuring archive footage, eyewitness accounts and interviews with Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Pamela Hicks, Sir Roy Strong, Douglas Hurd and Jilly Cooper. Elizabeth the Second is the most famous woman in the world. To mark her eightieth birthday, Ten Days That Made The Queen will analyse a life which has intersected the most important people and events of the modern age - from Stalin to the Spice Girls; from Dunkirk to Diana; from the era of the British Empire to the age of Big Brother. Ten Days That Shaped The Queen will identify the most significant and dramatic days which have affected the Queen in a personal or political sense, or often in both. Dramatic events in each day will allow us to chart the wider narrative of the changing fortunes of the monarchy and of Elizabeth herself.