Power And Glory

All This I Promise: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty will be the new book from Alexander Larman, author of The Crown in Crisis and The Windsors at War, and the conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'.

It will begin with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and will end with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it will depict a monarchy - and a country - struggling to cope with the aftermath of World War Two, in an era where old certainties have been replaced by the rise of a new, uncertain world, and where love, tragedy and modernity battle for supremacy.

All This I Promise will use the same previously unseen and rare sources as Larman's previous books, including the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Churchill College Archives and the Balliol Archives, as well as the Clement Attlee archives at the Bodleian in Oxford and the Parliamentary Archives in London.

New material will include extensive unpublished correspondence between major members of the Royal Family including George VI, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Windsor, the Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, and previously unseen diaries and memoranda from courtiers, personal secretaries and leading politicians, exploring everything from the King's declining health to the (often negative) reactions to Elizabeth's marriage to Prince Philip and Coronation.

All This I Promise will offer the same intricately researched and incisively written account of Britain's most famous family as Larman's previous books, but with a panoramic and epic international scale. It will explore everything from the end of British rule in India to the foundation of the United Nations, and the crucial role that monarchy played in the ever-shifting era - as well, naturally, as the way in which the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attempted to return to relevance, whatever the cost might be to the wider Royal Family.