01280nam a22002057a 4500 OSt 20260804160812.0 260804b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780571394289 AACR-II 941.085092 PIC Picardie, Justine 21341 Fashioning the crown: a story of power and couture London Faber & Faber 2026 448p. Unlike her distant ancestors, a queen isn't shielded from enemies by suits of armour. The women of the House of Windsor - Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, Wallis Simpson who would become Duchess of Windsor and Queen Elizabeth II - faced abdications and assassinations, revolutions, the rise of fascism and war. Their sartorial decisions projected power and perpetuity, diplomacy and even defiance. In this cinematic, vivid story of soft power and couture, Picardie uncovers the fascinating, little-known lives of the couturiers behind the clothes, figures like Hardy Amies, Edward Molyneux and Norman Hartnell, and traces the ways in which visual iconography safeguarded the monarchy even when their reign seemed to be hanging by a thread. History of Europe 21342 History of Great Britain 21343 ddc B 0 0 ddc 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-08-04 0 941.085092 PIC 186373 2026-08-04 2026-08-04 B 361836 361836