The Queen's House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace

by Edna Healey

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Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 078670716X, Paperback)

With access to the Royal Archive and the blessing of the royal family, this charming social history of Buckingham Palace opens the doors to the grand halls and private parlors of the English monarchs who have dictated the tastes of London society for two hundred years.

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SOCIAL & CULTURAL HISTORY. With access to the Royal Archive and the blessing of the royal family, this charming social history of Buckingham Palace opens the doors to the grand halls and private parlors of the English monarchs who have dictated the tastes of London society for two hundred years. Meticulously chronicled and sumptuously illustrated. Edna Healey is conspicuously skillful. --Jonathan Keates. Healey gives a lively description of succeeding changes in monarchs, entertainments, ceremony, architecture and amenities from Victoria (who introduced water closets) to Elizabeth II (who has lived in the palace since she was ten). Readers will delight in this well-written chronicle of the house of the House of Windsor.… (more)