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London Review of Books Christmas Books

A prince, too, can do his bit

K.D. Reynolds

  • Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII by Simon Heffer
  • A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI by Robert Rhodes James

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K.D. Reynolds’s Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain is published by Oxford.

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