Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: Setting the scene 
1. ‘All the world loves a lover’: the 1934 royal wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina 
2. ‘A man we understand’: King George V’s radio broadcasts
Part 2: The family firm falters
3. ‘This is the day of the people’: the 1937 coronation
4. ‘They’re only figureheads’: the royal family at war
Part 3: Royal renaissance
5. ‘A happy queen is a good queen’: the 1947 royal love story
6. ‘This time I was THERE taking part’: the television broadcast of the 1953 coronation
Conclusion

About the Author

Dr Edward Owens is lecturer in modern history at the University of Lincoln. He is interested in how innovations in media technologies helped appeal popular sensibilities and the implications these relationships had on conceptions of citizenship and national identity.

Reviews

"Owens’s research is impressively resourceful and wide, and his interpretation is appropriately rich... This book is valuable for understandings of the twentieth-century British monarchy." -English Historical Review

"The royal family, famous for its inscrutability, has more than met its match in this resourceful young historian"
 -Reviews in History

"A vibrant and welcome study of the monarchy’s early interaction with the mass media … An important insight into how British royalty has been adept at making itself a powerful, popular, and frequently uncontested presence."
 -Twentieth-Century British History

"Like a prequel to The Crown... Ed Owens' book should be read by anyone seeking to understand the cultural underpinnings of the modern British state."
 -Cultural and Social History