Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus, JUBILEE EDITION.* Impression: 1st. * Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: time Warner.* Binding and cover condition: Soft illustrative card covers. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Minimal creases & dish to spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No Annotations or Inscriptions, no marks. Minimal reading wear. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG* Illustrations: 3 x 16pp. blocks of colour & b/w photos with line drawn map.* Pages: 409 pp. text. lxxiii pp. Notes, bibliography, acknowledgements & index at rear.* Product Description:- Royal is Lacey's second bite of the Windsor cherry as in 1977 he produced Majesty to coincide with the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Much of this book is rehashed for the early part of Royal. In 1977, Majesty was considered cutting-edge stuff as it dared to portray the Royal Family as real people, rather than as semi-detached descendants of the Almighty. Now, it appears in a somewhat different light; his picture of a rather bumbling set of not-very-bright aristocrats having picnics on a Scottish moor no longer seems particularly endearing. Rather it appears as bizarrely anachronistic even for the 1970s and all the more so for what has followed since. The story of the last 25 years is of a family and institution struggling to get up to speed with the 20th century--let alone the 21st. So we get all the royal divorces, the tacky Hello! spreads, the paying of taxes, the scrapping of Britannia and, of course, the death of Princess Diana. Lacey tells the story very well--he clearly has well-placed sources and his command of detail is both comprehensive and has the ring of authenticity.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf & reading wear reducing it to VG.*