The Windsor Dynasty 1910 to the Present: 'Long to Reign Over Us'?

299 Pages·2016·2.86 MB·English

by  Matthew Glencross

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN MODERN MONARCHY
THE
WINDSOR
DYNASTY
1910 TO
THE PRESENT
‘Long to Reign Over Us’?
Edited by
Matthew Glencross
Judith Rowbotham
and Michael D. Kandiah
Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
Series Editors
Professor Axel Körner
University College London, UK
Dr Heather Jones
London School of Economics, UK
Dr Heidi Mehrkens
University of Aberdeen, UK
Professor Frank Lorenz Müller
University of St Andrews, UK
Aim of the Series
The death of Louis XVI on the scaffold in 1793 did not mark the
beginning of the end of monarchy. What followed was a Long Nineteenth
Century during which monarchical systems continued to be politically and
culturally dominant both in Europe and beyond. They became a reference
point for debates on constitutional government and understandings of
political liberalism. Within multinational settings monarchy offered an
alternative to centralised national states. Not even the cataclysms of the
twentieth century could wipe monarchy completely off the political,
mental and emotional maps. Studies in Modern Monarchy reflects the
vibrancy of research into this topic by bringing together monographs and
edited collections exploring the history of monarchy in Europe and the
world in the period after the end of the ancien régime. Committed to a
scholarly approach to the royal past, the series is open in terms of geo-
graphical and thematic coverage, welcoming studies examining any aspect
of any part of the modern monarchical world.
More information about this series at
http://www.springer.com/series/14609
Matthew Glencross • Judith Rowbotham • Michael D. Kandiah
Editors
The Windsor Dynasty
1910 to the Present
‘Long to Reign Over Us’?
Editors
Matthew Glencross Judith Rowbotham
King’s College London Plymouth University
London, United Kingdom Plymouth, United Kingdom
Michael D. Kandiah
King’s College London
London, United Kingdom
Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy
ISBN 978-1-137-56454-2 ISBN 978-1-137-56455-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56455-9
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cknowledgments
The Editors would like to thank Her Majesty the Queen for her gracious
permission to quote material from the Royal Archives Windsor, for which
she holds the copyright; as would (in particular) Matthew Glencross, Ian
Beckett, Heather Jones and Antony Best. The editors and contributors
would also like to thank all Royal Archives Staff for their help in access-
ing the material held there; the material which has helped to make this
volume so robust.
Our gratitude goes out also to Melanie Apsley of the Rothschild
Archives, London for allowing the facilities of the archive to be used to
host the conference ‘The Windsor Dynasty’, on 1 November 2012—an
event which forms the basis of this collection and therefore w ithout
whom this would not have been possible. Our thanks also to the staff of
the Institute of Contemporary British History, King’s College London,
especially Virginia Preston for her support in the conference, and
Andrew Blick for his comments and insights which have improved the
quality of the volume.
The Editors would like to thank The National Archives, Kew, the
National Library of Scotland, The British Library, Churchill Archives
Centre Cambridge, the Bodleian Library Oxford and the National Army
Museum for their permission to quote material held in their respective
collections. Michael D. Kandiah also thanks Judie Sandeman Allen and
the Earl of Woolton for permission to quote from the Woolton Diaries.
Thanks to Frank Muller, Heidi Mehrkens, Heather Jones and Axel Korner
our series editors, for their support and insights, not only for this collection
but for their help in advancing modern monarchy as a field of academic study.
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We are also grateful to Emily Russell and Angharad Bishop and Rowan
Milligan, her successor as Editorial Assistant at Palgrave for their helpful
comments during the process of evolving and collating this volume. We
are also grateful to Sharon Rajkumar and the production team in Chennai
for accommodating necessary last minute changes!
Finally the Editors would like to thank not only the contributors for
their efforts but also to thank our families, colleagues and friends for
their continued support for us—they are too many to name individu-
ally, but they will remember who they are as their ears will have been
regularly bashed over the period in which this volume has evolved. As all
three of us know, achieving completion of this volume is both a tribute
to the contributors who have responded to the challenge so magnifi-
cently, and to the tolerance of both the editors’ and the contributors’
various family members, scholars and the wide range of friends who have
not given up on us, yet.
London, UK Matthew Glencross
Plymouth, UK Judith Rowbotham
London, UK Michael D. Kandiah
April 2016
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Matthew Glencross, Judith Rowbotham,
and Michael D. Kandiah
Part I Setting the Scene 31
2 George V and the New Royal House 33
Matthew Glencross
Part II Establishing the Windsor Brand 57
3 The Ultimate Windsor Ceremonials:
Coronations and Investitures 59
Michael D. Kandiah, Judith Rowbotham, and Gillian Staerck
4 The Windsors and Ceremonial Events: State Occasions
for the National Family 87
Judith Rowbotham
5 Royalty and the Army in the Twentieth Century 109
Ian F. W. Beckett
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6 Measuring British Public Opinion on the Monarchy
and the Royal Family 135
Roger Mortimore
Part III Marketing the Windsor Brand 157
7 The Abdication of Edward VIII: Legal and
Constitutional Perspectives 159
Robert Blackburn
8 The Nature of Kingship in First World War Britain 195
Heather Jones
9 The Duke and the Dictator: The Royal Role
in Marshal Tito’s Visit to Britain, March 1953 217
Andrew Harrison
10 ‘We Cannot Pretend That the Past Did Not Exist’:
The Windsor Dynasty and Japan, 1941–1971 239
Antony Best
11 Epilogue: The Rise of ‘The Queen’ 259
Matthew Glencross, Judith Rowbotham, and
Michael D. Kandiah
Index 269
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ontributor iogrAphies
Ian F. W. Beckett is Emeritus Professor of Military History, University of
Kent. His research focuses on British auxiliary forces, the First World War
and the late Victorian army. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
and Chairman of the Army Records society as well as Secretary to the
Buckinghamshire Military Museum Trust.
Antony Best is Associate Professor in the International History Department,
London School of Economics, and the department’s PhD Programme
Director. His research interests lie in Anglo-Japanese relations, the origins of
the Pacific War; the international history of East Asia; the history of modern
Japan, and intelligence and international history, where he has published
extensively. He is also a convener of the Institute of Historical Research’s
International History Seminar.
Robert Blackburn is Professor of Constitutional Law, King’s College
London, and a specialist in political and constitutional affairs. He has acted
as adviser to government and other official bodies on many occasions both
in the UK and abroad. He is an honorary Queen’s Counsel, and a Fellow
of the Royal Historical Society.
Andrew Harrison is Media Officer at The National Archives, London,
and a former journalist. He is currently studying for a PhD on British
foreign policy towards Tito’s Yugoslavia, at the Institute of Contemporary
British History, King’s College London.
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