pt. 1. Royals in toils. Family monarchy -- Midas monarchy -- Constitutional monarchy -- Welfare monarchy -- Mrs. Jordan -- Queen Victoria -- King Edward VIII -- King George VI -- The Prince of Wales -- Diana, Princess of Wales -- pt. 2. Hindsight's insights. Patriotism -- Privacy -- Divorce -- Suicide -- Victorians -- Empire -- Britons -- Intellectuals -- Class -- Morals -- pt. 3. Persons and personalities. Florence Nightingale -- Cecil Rhodes -- Winston Churchill -- John Buchan -- Lord Beaverbrook -- Harold Macmillan -- Sir Oswald Mosley -- Robert Boothby -- A.J.P. Taylor -- Margaret Thatcher
Summary
"Cannadine's subject is nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain ... [with] subjects as varied as suicide and divorce, patriotism and empire, class and privacy, and ... 'Victorian values.'"--Jacket
Notes
Collection of essays previously published, 1988-1997
