List of illustrations

0.1 King George V, 1931.

0.2 King Edward VIII as prince of Wales, April 1935.

0.3 Sir Alan Lascelles, October 1943.

0.4 Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang.

0.5 Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher.

0.6 King George VI and his family at Windsor, April 1940.

0.7 Prince George and Princess Marina, duke and duchess of Kent, 1934.

0.8 Queen Mary, 1937.

0.9 Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant (Prince) Philip Mountbatten, July 1947.

0.10 Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles, October 1949.

1.1 ‘Prince George engaged to Princess Marina’, Daily Mail, 29 August 1934, p. 9.

1.2 ‘Prince George and Princess Marina Send Greetings Through Movietone’, British Movietone News, 3 September 1934.

1.3 ‘Prince George’s Wedding Plans’, Daily Mirror, 30 August 1934, p. 1.

1.4 ‘London’s Warm-Hearted Welcome’, Daily Sketch, 17 September 1934, p. 1.

1.5 ‘Royal Lovers’ Greeting’, Daily Mirror, 22 November 1934, p. 1.

1.6 ‘To-day’s Great Abbey Wedding’, Daily Mirror, 26 April 1923, p. 1.

1.7 ‘Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. announce Real Photo Postcards and Calendars of beautiful photographs by Dorothy Wilding of T.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Kent’, Illustrated London News, 1 December 1934, p. 947.

1.8 ‘Princess Marina Joins in Family Joke at Balmoral’, Daily Express, 19 September 1934, p. 20.

1.9 ‘“I Will” – Vow that Thrilled the World’, Daily Mirror, 30 November 1934, p. 1.

1.10 ‘Out-Of-Work Princess Signs on for Dole’, Daily Worker, 29 November 1934, p. 1.

1.11 ‘The Bride Waves, the Crowd Cheers’, Daily Sketch, 30 November 1934, p. 25.

2.1 George V at the microphone. Taken by a photographer from The Times in October 1934.

2.2 ‘My Very Dear People’, Daily Express, 7 May 1935, p. 1.

3.1 ‘One Matchless Blessing – a Happy Home with His Wife and Children’, Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal, dcxciv (1937), p. 1.

3.2 ‘We’re Happy at Last’, Daily Mirror, 8 May 1937, p. 1.

3.3 ‘This is the Answer to Dictators/“Very Happy Together”’, Daily Herald, 8 May 1937, p. 1.

3.4 ‘“Malicious Gossip” About the Health of the King’, Daily Mirror, 7 May 1937, p. 36.

3.5 King George’s Jubilee Trust: The Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI & Queen Elizabeth: Official Souvenir Programme (London, 1937).

3.6 A balcony photograph with Queen Mary encouraging her granddaughters to wave to the crowds gathered below.

4.1 ‘Stand Calm, Firm and United!’, Daily Sketch, 4 September 1939, p. 1.

4.2 ‘The King and I know what it means to be parted from our children’, 11 Nov. 1939.

4.3 ‘The Duke of Windsor – Home After Nearly Three Years’, Daily Express, 14 September 1939, p. 12.

4.4 Royal visit to a bomb-damaged area of the East End, 23 April 1941.

4.5 Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at the microphone, by a photographer from The Times.

4.6 Marcus Adams, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, 9 April 1940.

4.7 ‘Princess Elizabeth: Fourteen Next Sunday’, Daily Express, 17 April 1940, p. 3, with photograph by Marcus Adams.

4.8 ‘The Princesses Grow Up’, Daily Mirror, 24 April 1941, p. 5, with photograph by Marcus Adams.

4.9 ‘The Duke of Kent Killed’, Daily Sketch, 26 August 1942, p. 1.

4.10 ‘Nation’s VE Outburst of Joy’, Daily Telegraph, 9 May 1945, p. 1.

5.1 ‘Should Our Future Queen Wed Philip?’, Sunday Pictorial, 5 January 1947, p. 1.

5.2 ‘The Princess and the People’, Sunday Pictorial, 12 January 1947, p. 1.

5.3 ‘The King Has Gladly Given Consent’, Daily Express, 10 July 1947, p. 1.

5.4 ‘The Man She Will Marry’, Daily Express, 10 July 1947, p. 3.

5.5 ‘It is easy to see the radiant happiness of the princess’, 10 July 1947

6.1 A photograph of a television screen showing Queen Elizabeth II as the coronation service unfolded, taken by a man from Southend-on-Sea on 2 June 1953.

6.2 Marcus Adams, ‘Princess Elizabeth and Prince Charles’, 1948/49.

6.3 Marcus Adams, ‘Prince Charles and Princess Anne’, 24 October 1952.

6.4 ‘Let’s Play In-And-Out-The Window’, Daily Mirror, 1 May 1953, pp. 8–9.

6.5 A photograph of a television screen showing Prince Charles and the Queen Mother in the royal box, taken by a man from Southend-on-Sea on 2 June 1953.

6.6 ‘Mummy – Mummy!’, Daily Mirror, 4 June 1953, p. 9.