The Queen And Us: The Second Elizabethan Age - Couverture rigide

Nicholson, Nigel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297829408 ISBN 13 : 9780297829409

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

Synopsis

At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 Nigel Nicolson was in his mid-thirties and already a successful publisher, a left-leaning Conservative MP (elected to Parliament the day King George VI died) and an author. He moved close to royal circles yet was not part of the Court. He has kept a daily diary throughout these years and has observed how a nation that still boasted an empire gradually down-sized to a sovereign state that is now part of the European community. In 1953 the Queen ruled over a country still recovering from the depradations of world war II. The royal family kept its private life private. How it has all changed since then! Why has it changed? asks Nicolson. Is it a change for the good? Should we continue to have a royal family? Then there are the social changes, the technological innovations. Nicolson comments on them, writing with a wry sense of humour and a keen sense of history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Nicolson has been writing and publishing for more than fifty years. He edited the letters of Harold Nicolson (his father), wrote an account of the unusual marriage of his parents (Portrait of a Marriage). He was a Tory MP for Bournemouth from 1952 (entering Parliament on the day of the death of King George VI) until September 1959. He co-founded the publishing house of Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297829408
• ISBN 13: 9780297829409
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
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