Contents 
Preface ix 
PART ONE: Royals in Toils 
1 Family Monarchy 3 
2 Midas Monarchy II 
3 Constitutional Monarchy 19 
4 Welfare Monarchy 25 
5 Mrs Jordan 33
6 Queen Victoria 39 
7 King Edward VIII 48 
8 King George VI 59 
9 The Prince of Wales 68 
10 Diana, Princess of Wales 76 
PART Two: Hindsight's Insights 
11 Patriotism 89 
12 Privacy 96 
13 Divorce 109 
14 Suicide 119 
15 Victorians 129 
16 Empire 143 
17 Britons 155 
18 Intellectuals 165 
19 Class 174 
20 Morals 188 
PART THREE: Persons and Personalities 
21 Florence Nightingale 199 
22 Cecil Rhodes 208 
23 Winston Churchill 216 
24 John Buchan 233 
25 Lord Beaverbrook 243 
26 Harold Macmillan 250 
27 Sir Oswald Mosley 259 
28 Robert Boothby 269 
29 A.J.P. Taylor 279 
30 Margaret Thatcher 288 
Acknowledgements 298 
Index 300