A Royal Christmas
By: Jeremy Archer
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781908739223
Subjects: Christmas; History; Kings and rulers; Social life and customs
Description: "[This] is a veritable Christmas pudding of a book. ... Organised thematically, [it] brings together extracts from journals, diaries, letters and much, much more to reveal the many ways in which the Royal Family has celebrated [Christmas] through the ages. ..."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval and Tudor Christmases; title: Christmas and the Commonwealth; title: Queen Charlotte's [consort of George IV] Christmas: the Hanoverian influence; title: Young Victoria's Christmases; title: Queen Victoria and her first Prime Minister [William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne]; title: Home for Christmas; title: Away at Christmas; title: The gifts; title: Festive feasts; title: Christmas pastimes; title: Observers' Royal Christmases; title: Fath, hope and charity: Fides, spes et caritas; title: Crisis at Christmas; title: Christmas and conflict during the twentieth century; title: Christmas and communication.