History in our time

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