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The King is Dead, Long Live the King! (Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Martin Williams
    Format:
    Hardcover
    Publisher:
    Hodder (October 31, 2023)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9781529383317
    ISBN-10:
    1529383315
    File:
    hbgusa-hbgusa_onix30_P10071306_05112026-20260511.xml
    Folder:
    hbgusa
    List Price:
    $36.99
    As low as:
    $28.48
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-HACH
    Discount Code:
    A
    Pages:
    304
    Weight:
    18.4oz
    Dimensions:
    6.5" x 9.5"
    Case Pack:
    16
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Hodder & Stoughton
  • Overview

    Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning.
     
    In The King is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape. Witnessed by a diverse but interconnected cast of characters - crowned heads and Cabinet ministers, debutantes and suffragettes, artists and murderers - here is the swansong of Edwardian Britain. Set against a backdrop of bereavement and parliamentary crisis overshadowed by the gathering clouds of war, we see a people caught between past and future, tradition and modernity, as they unite to bid farewell to a much-loved monarch who had personified his age.
     
    From Buckingham Palace to Bloomsbury, and from the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall to a now legendary Royal Ascot enveloped in black, this is a vivid evocation of a world on the brink of seismic upheaval.