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  • The King is Dead, Long Live the King!

  • Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
  • By: Martin Williams
  • Narrated by: Martin Williams
  • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!

By: Martin Williams
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Summary

The rich and fascinating story of the events surrounding the year 1910 when King Edward VII died, sending shockwaves through Britain and changing the country forever.

Unforgettable as it was, the public response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was not without precedent. When her great-grandfather King Edward VII - glamorous, cosmopolitan and extraordinarily popular - died in May 1910, the political, social and cultural anxieties of a nation in turmoil were temporarily set aside during a summer of intense and ritualised mourning.

In The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! Martin Williams charts a period of tension and transition as one era slipped away and another took shape. Witnessed by a diverse but interconnected cast of characters - crowned heads and Cabinet ministers, debutantes and suffragettes, artists and murderers - here is the swansong of Edwardian Britain. Set against a backdrop of bereavement and parliamentary crisis overshadowed by the gathering clouds of war, we see a people caught between past and future, tradition and modernity, as they unite to bid farewell to a much-loved monarch who had personified his age.

From Buckingham Palace to Bloomsbury, and from the lying-in-state in Westminster Hall to a now legendary Royal Ascot enveloped in black, this is a vivid evocation of a world on the brink of seismic upheaval.

©2023 Martin Williams (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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A Brilliant Insight to a Good King and His Era

Very good narration and to someone born in the 1940s a very good look back at how Edward V11s reign for outlasted his actually time on the throne.
His many illicit get accepted affairs only adds to his character, although why he would do that with a beautiful wife as his Queen beats me.
His legacy lasted well into the 20th century, and even his mistress Alice Pebble lives in now through Queen Camilla.
Long are the reaches of history.
A thoroughly enjoyable audio book, and well read by the author.
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good historical book

I'd like the content of the book but found the reader rather stilted and often the book went off an on a tangent, which I found rather disrupting to the main stotyline.

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Excellent narrative of Britain in the early C20 especially with regards cultural considerations. Delivery of narration perhaps a little stilted but made up for by subject knowledge.

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