Overview
- The BBC, which announced the one-hour film Sunday, said it will run on BBC One and iPlayer with the broadcast date to be announced.
- Titled Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century, the documentary marks what would have been the late monarch's 100th birthday on April 21, 2026.
- Producers will combine archival footage with newly recorded interviews to trace social and cultural shifts from the Blitz to the 2012 London Olympics.
- Confirmed contributors include Helen Mirren, Barack Obama, Sir David Attenborough, Dame Sheila Hancock and Queen Camilla, who will share personal memories.
- The project uses her seven-decade reign as a lens on national change, echoing a BBC pledge to explain how modern Britain was shaped.