The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947–1955)

420 Pages·2017·167.48 MB·English

by  Robert Lacey

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THE
CROWN
FOREWORD BY PETER MORGAN
1. WOLFERTON SPLASH
2. HYDE PARK CORNER
3. WINDSOR
4. ACT OF GOD
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5. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
6. GELIGNITE
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7. SCIENTIA POTENTIA EST
8. PRIDE AND JOY
9. ASSASSINS
10. GLORIANA

FOREWORD BY
PETER MORGAN
What is real? And what is imagined? What is truth, and what is
fiction? What happened? What did not? It’s become clear that many
viewers, while watching The Crown, did so while scrolling through
the pages of Wikipedia, searching for answers to these questions.
It was an extraordinary pleasure to write The Crown, to anatomise
the many vivid characters and events that make up the story in the
years 1947–1955. But it was sheer agony to condense ten dramatic
event-filled years of history into just ten hours of television. So I was
delighted by the suggestion that the royal historian Robert Lacey
should take up the challenge to clear things up and separate fact from
fiction — while telling us a great deal more. So, let me hand you over
to Robert to take you back to 1947, when the King realizes he is
gravely ill and his eldest daughter, the shy, 21-year-old Princess
Elizabeth, is about to marry a handsome but fractious young
foreigner of whom nobody seems comfortably sure…