Summary of Katie Nicholl's The New Royals

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#1 The Queen’s reign has spanned a history-making seventy years. She has established the monarchy as a resilient and alluring institution. But who will define the next seventy years. -> The Queen’s reign has spanned a history-making seventy years.

#2 The Queen’s reign has spanned a history-making seventy years. She has established the monarchy as a resilient and alluring institution. But who will define the next seventy years.

#3 The Queen’s reign has spanned a history-making seventy years. She has established the monarchy as a resilient and alluring institution. But who will define the next seventy years.

#4 The Queen’s reign has spanned a history-making seventy years. She has established the monarchy as a resilient and alluring institution. But who will define the next seventy years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350039641

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977 was a celebration of her reign, and it was a landmark event in British history. The country was not an especially happy nation at the time, but the Queen’s Golden Jubilee twenty-five years later was a more somber affair, reflecting a time of great turbulence.

#2

The arrival of Princess Margaret in August 1930 completed the family, creating the tight unit of We Four: the duke, his wife, and their two daughters. The duke was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary, and he had fallen in love with the aristocratic Elizabeth Bowes Lyon.

#3

The coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 was not a moment too soon, as Britain was going to war with Germany in 1939. The family used their daughters to promote the idea of a happy family in the palace.

#4

Elizabeth and Philip’s marriage was a fairy tale-like relationship that promised to end happily ever after. They married in 1947, and within a few years, he would be not just her husband but her subject too, kissing her at her coronation in Westminster Abbey.

#5

The Queen had done her best to balance royal duties with being a mother, and she had moved her weekly late-afternoon meeting with Winston Churchill to early evening so she could be with the children for their bath and bedtime routine.

#6

The second Elizabethan age began on June 2, 1953, when Queen Elizabeth II was coronated. She was a global icon, and her face was on Britain’s stamps and its money. She connected with subjects in the farthest corners of her Commonwealth through radio and TV.

#7

The 1950s and 1960s were a triumph for the new