The story of how her most unusual portrait came about: When Lucian Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud, asked Queen Elizabeth II to paint her portrait, he was almost 80 years old and in a personal crisis. The Queen agreed and sat for him again and again from May 2000 to December 2001. In her new, profoundly researched and elegantly narrated book, Munich-based author
Munich author Lea Singer ("Anatomy of Clouds" and others) looks behind closed doors. In her sophisticated novel (Piper), the encounter between two of the most prominent Britons becomes a literary excursion into carefully guarded secrets.
This reading has been postponed from 15.4. to 16.4. The evening with Saša Stanišić will now take place on April 15.