Windsor: A Dynasty Revealed

By Phillip Whitehead and Piers Brendon

Book Overview

A revelatory account of the House of Windsor from its creation in 1917 to the present day, The Windsors provides at once a serious historical study and a chapter-by-chapter series of revelations. In particular, the Abdication Crisis and the part played by certain female members of the royal household are analyzed afresh.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340610131
• ISBN13: 9780340610138
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

The Windsors Under Glass

Based on research done for a TV documentary of the same name, this book covers the same ground that Elizabeth Longford's "The Royal House of Windsor" does but with a more objective than personal view. This is to be expected because neither author shares the intimacy with the Royal Circle that Lady Longford does. As a result this book focuses more on the historical events that swirled around the Royals than on the personalities of the Royals; yet by their actions, the book still tells a lot about them as individuals. Both books should be read if you want to make sense of current events in the House of Windsor. Read Elizabeth Longford's book first, and this book second. Both sets of authors conclude that the House of Windsor will survive. That is to be expected of a dedicated royalist such as Longford. That Brendon and Whitehead came to the same conclusion appeared more to be a lack of nerve in the end than of reasoned conviction.