1986 The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

First Edition, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. 

With an ink inscription to the half-title page which reads 'Deborah, with much love from the old author, ever, John. March 86'. 

Illustrated with a family tree of the Royal House of Windsor to the paste downs and endpapers as well as twenty-four pages of photographs throughout the text.

This is a wonderful biographical account of the Windsor family, which focuses particularly on the 'making of their royal house'. 

Contents fall under three headings, those being 'Foundations', 'Decline', and 'Revival', with chapters such as 'Queen Mary and the Sacred Kingship', 'The Snowdon Factor', and 'A Megastar is Made'. 

Written by John Pearson (1930-2021) an English novelist and biographer. He wrote a range of biographies on figures such as Ian Fleming, the Sitwells, as well as the Kray twins. 

Collated, complete.