Dr. David Starkey: A Boswell in the House of Windsor
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
The House of Windsor
19 17 is quite a long way from 14 85. What happens in 19 17? One of the most brilliant pieces of p r that's ever been carried out by the early twentieth century, as it had been since the beginning of the eighteenth century. You re invent royal ceremony. Royal marriages take place in tiny little spaces like the chapel royal at saint james's. They go into splendour. And i suppose what it really amounts to, alexis you consciously make the monarchy a paradox. People think having back to magna carta again, right?! It's not true. The house of windsor was actually named after shakespeare’s play ‘The merry wives of
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