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100			_aPicardie, Justine _921341
245			_aFashioning the crown: a story of power and couture
260			_aLondon _bFaber & Faber _c2026
300			_a448p.
520			_aUnlike 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.
650			_aHistory of Europe _921342
650			_aHistory of Great Britain _921343
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