The King Is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781529383317)

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.

Author: Martin Williams
ISBN-10: 1529383315
ISBN-13: 9781529383317
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2023
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.20w x 1.10d