Monarchy and the End of Empire
The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Postwar Commonwealth
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 December 2013
- ISBN 9780199214235
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 237x162x22 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps, 16-page plate section 0
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Short description:
Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.
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By the early twentieth century it was becoming clear that the Empire was falling apart. The British government promoted the Crown as a counterbalance to the forces drawing the Empire apart, but when India declared their intent to become a republic in the late 1940s, Britain had to accept that allegiance to the Crown could no longer be the common factor binding the Commonwealth together. They devised the notion of the Headship of the Commonwealth, enabling India to remain in the Commonwealth while continuing to give the monarchy a pivotal symbolic role. Monarchy and the End of Empire provides a unique insight on the triangular relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945.
In the years of rapid decolonization which followed 1945 it became clear that this elaborate constitutional infrastructure posed significant problems for British foreign policy. Not only did it offer opportunities for the monarch to act without ministerial advice, it also tied the British government to what many within the UK had begun to regard as a largely redundant institution. Philip Murphy employs a large amount of previously-unpublished documentary evidence to argue that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening Imperial ties, had increasingly become an impediment to British foreign policy.
a carefully researched and beautifully presented book that chronicles the relationship between the monarchy, the UK government, and the decolonisation of the British Empire
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
The Holy Family: an introduction
'The Pivot of Empire': Monarchy and the Commonwealth, 1918-1945
'A Common Act of Will': The Making of the New Commonwealth, 1945-1952
'A Personal and Living Bond': Accession, Coronation, and Commonwealth Tour, 1952-1954
Winds of Change and the Royal Family
'A poor sort of courtesy to Her Majesty': Republics, Realms and Rebels, 1960-1970
'A Fragile Flower': Britain and the Headship of the Commonwealth
'A Royal Duty': Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings in the 1970s
'De-Dominionisation' in the 1970s
'On Her Own': The Queen and the Commonwealth in the 1980s
The Fall and Rise of the Royal Commonwealth
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