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A fascinating exploration of the activities, relationships and emotions of the British royal family and parliamentary leaders in the post-war years of the forties and fifties. If you want to better understand England and the English people, read this book -- Sir Patrick Stewart Modern royal history at its best - clear, unsentimental, authoritative, captivating. The struggles of the post-war monarchy and the dawn of Elizabeth II's reign are told with the perfect amount of detail -- Gareth Russell * author of The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court *

A fascinating exploration of the activities, relationships and emotions of the British royal family and parliamentary leaders in the post-war years of the forties and fifties. If you want to better understand England and the English people, read this book -- Sir Patrick Stewart

Appreciative but not sycophantic . . . Immaculately sourced . . .The rebirth of royalty was the foundation of something which, for a long while, was substantial and worthwhile -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator * A fascinating exploration of the activities, relationships and emotions of the British royal family and parliamentary leaders in the post-war years of the forties and fifties. If you want to better understand England and the English people, read this book -- Sir Patrick Stewart Modern royal history at its best - clear, unsentimental, authoritative, captivating. The struggles of the post-war monarchy and the dawn of Elizabeth II's reign are told with the perfect amount of detail -- Gareth Russell * author of The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court *

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Alexander Larman is the author of several books, most recently The Crown In Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication. He is books editor of the Spectator's world edition and is a contributing editor to The Critic magazine. He has a monthly book review column in the Observer and writes regularly about literature and the arts for publications including Prospect, The Chap and the Daily Telegraph.

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