Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie #joyce With My Back to the

With My Back to the World won the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection on the 10th October 2024

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The Isle in the Silver Sea is an ode to the power of stories themselves--both to shackle us to our destinies

Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie #joyce With My Back to thePublished ahead of the centenary of the Queen's birth, this beautifully illustrated book uncovers the hidden history of the Crown and how it survived a tumultuous era and two world wars. **Features over 100 sumptuous images**From the birth of the house of Windsor in 1917, its leading women Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, the Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II faced abdication and assassination, revolution and the rise of fascism, the threat of