Queen Elizabeth II, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

EIIR

Words from the throne

Introduction

Crawfie tells (not quite) all

Crawfie’s revelations 1

Persona non grata

Crawfie’s revelations 2

‘My sister and I...’

A queen in the making

In the limelight

A young subaltern

An ‘austerity’ wedding

Up a fig tree

CHAPTER ONE: Windsor soup

George V’s proclamation

Stirring the pot

Royal roulette

Tail wagging the dog

Kings and queens of the United Kingdom

A quiverful of queens

The war and beyond

CHAPTER TWO: Coronation Day

Drab Britain

Salote’s smile

A push-start

Uneasy lies the head...

The world in 1953

Among my souvenirs

Fit for a queen?

What they played then

The Coronation oath

CHAPTER THREE: If I ruled the world

Far and wide

Not so great Britain

An assassination attempt?

The Commonwealth

‘How very kind of you!’

Did he really say that?

Ten of the best Philipisms

Dutiful duke

An island god

The first royal walkabout

Chilled by kindness

We are sailing

Britannia facts and figures

A rapturous welcome

CHAPTER FOUR: My subjects & I

The Queen’s role

I have a dream

Walking backwards

Many a slip

The Royal Maundy service

In one’s garden

Downing Street dozen

A guardsman’s ‘bull’

Spick and span

The royal train

Swinging Britain

Elizabeth II fact file

1960s Britain

Pomp and circumstance

The Aberfan disaster

Just like us?

1970s Britain

Cry treason!

Twenty-five years on

Jubilee soap

Up the union!

All this – and Wimbledon too!

The trouble with Margaret

Pioneer paparazzo

1980s Britain

Telephoto lenses

And a few other things...

Warts and all

The common touch

CHAPTER FIVE: Where the other half lives

The Crown Estate

A taxing problem

Y Bwthyn Bach

A home of one’s own

A law unto themselves

Marble halls

A year in the life

The Scottish connection

Hearth and home

Brought to book

All the Queen’s horses

Further revelations

Up to the elbows

Buckingham Palace

Thank you, Ma’am

‘Buck House’ facts and figures

Ten Palace interlopers

A bottle or two

Apparitions

The wrong kind of mulberry

Windsor Castle

Queen Mary’s dolls’ house

Up in flames

Windsor Castle trivia

A burning question

CHAPTER SIX: The Annus Horribilis & other hard times

A call for understanding

A Palace bust-up

1990s Britain

Fergie exposed

Beyond the pale

Royal soap

Prince Andrew’s expensive paint job

Straight talking

A king in waiting?

Mahmood strikes again

Not love, actually

The Camilla file

Piling on the agony

Charitable Charles

A Regency rake

Mea culpa

Queen of hearts

Bye bye, Britannia

Enough is enough

A nation in mourning

Goodbye, England’s Rose

Keeping up the good work

A brother’s revenge

In memoriam

Too little, too late

‘Noughties’ Britain

CHAPTER SEVEN: The young ones

The son and heir

Saying sorry

Palace naughties

The next generation

Ticking the boxes

The monarchy – yes or no?

Boys next door

A people’s wedding

All this and the Olympics, too!

CHAPTER EIGHT: Sixty years on

The world at large

An exclusive club

Money matters

Off with her head?

By royal appointment

Underlings

Counting one’s blessings

Timeline

Glossary

End matter

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