British Monarchs: The Complete Genealogy, Gazetteer, and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings and Queens of Britain

The monarchy has always attracted much attention from the general public, particularly when the press and the media generally have encouraged this observance. The current focus of attention on what is called these days “The Royal Family” cannot be as intrusive as the way in which George IV and his wife Caroline split the nation in the early nineteenth century. Both of these stories are succinctly related in British Monarchs, which points out that, as early as 1957, Lord Altrincham admonished the Queen for being “out of touch” and follows the standard line that “perhaps the least criticised was...