ABSTRACT

To talk about royalty is to talk of many things: privilege, equality, nationality, morality, family life, parenting, divorce, the media and more. Important themes and issues flow through the seemingly trivial everyday chatter about royalty.
Now with a new preface, Talking of the Royal Family was the first serious full-length study of royalty to emerge from this rhetorical perspective and remains relevant today.

chapter 1|24 pages

INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM OF MONARCHY

chapter 2|31 pages

THE ENVY OF THE WORLD

chapter 3|30 pages

THE CONTINUING MYSTERY

chapter 4|30 pages

IDENTIFYING WITH ‘THEM’

chapter 5|28 pages

SETTLING ACCOUNTS

chapter 6|28 pages

DESIRE, DENIAL AND THE PRESS

chapter 7|30 pages

A WOMAN’S REALM

chapter 8|22 pages

THE HERITAGE OF THE FUTURE