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The new royals, Queen Elizabeth's legacy and the future of the crown, Katie Nicholl

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The new royals, Queen Elizabeth's legacy and the future of the crown, Katie Nicholl
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-260) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
portraitsillustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The new royals
Responsibility statement
Katie Nicholl
Sub title
Queen Elizabeth's legacy and the future of the crown
Summary
For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle's abdication, in the uncertainty of the Blitz, and in the tentative exposure of her family and private life to the public via the press, Elizabeth became synonymous with the crown. But times change. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor, and even as England celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, there were calls for a changing of the guard. In The New Royals, journalist Katie Nicholl provides a nuanced look at Elizabeth's remarkable and unrivalled reign, with new stories from Palace courtiers and aides, documentarians, and family members. She examines King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla's decades in waiting and beyond-where "The Firm" is headed as William and Kate present the modern faces of an ancient institution. In the wake of Harry and Meghan leaving the Royal Family and Prince Andrew's spectacular fall from grace, the royal family must reckon with its history, the light and the dark, in order to chart a course for Britain beyond its Queen and to show that it is an institution capable of leadership in an ever-changing modern world
Table Of Contents
Platinum Queen -- Highs and lows -- Decade horribilis -- Operation Mrs. PB -- A modern royal romance -- Annus mirabilis -- A Windsor wedding -- Another annus horribilis -- A sea change -- Kingmakers -- London Bridge -- The new royals
Target audience
adult
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