Coronation : Thorns in the Crown Book New Hardback Royal History Queen Elizabeth

THORNS IN THE CROWN\nNEW Books from family run Booksellers. Our hand selected titles are in stock and ready for posting in protective packaging.\nThe first book to explore the challenges facing the Royal Family on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. Thorns in the Crown is the story of Britain on the eve of the 1953 coronation. Bestselling historian Barry Turner explores the challenges the Queen and the Royal Family faced in adapting to a society no longer in awe of a social elite and examines the relationship between the Commonwealth and Empire on the verge of disintegration. On one level the coronation was a triumph of benevolent nationalism, bringing the country together in ways that had not been seen since the days of Queen Victoria, but it did leave many open-ended questions, not least the capacity for Britain to rise above the years of post-war austerity to meet the challenges of the new age. Indeed, those who saw the coronation as the icing on a mouldering cake wers