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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 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016958099 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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London The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom A 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. v vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 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 c 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 vii viii CONTENTS 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 c b 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. ix
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