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History in Our Time

by David Cannadine

How did the House of Windsor transform itself into a wealth-creating machine which has built up a huge private fortune from public funds? how did the (apparently) happy family on the throne turn dysfunctional, and a glitzy royal marriage degenerate into the ghastly spectacle of two sad, spoiled, solipsistic individuals slugging it out in public?

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