WINDSOR CASTLE JOURNAL TOPICS

CHOOSE ONE QUESTION

1.  Discuss contemporary portrayals of the monarchy in the print media.  Choose four daily  newspapers and peruse them for references to the monarchy and the royal family.  Summarize each article and/or describe each photograph.  Does the writer/photographer seem to be favorable, antagonistic, or neutral to the institution and its representatives?  What does each suggest about the role of the monarchy in Britain today?

2.  Windsor Castle remains one of the homes of Queen Elizabeth II and her family.  How does the castle reflect the changes that have occurred in the institution of the monarchy and its representatives over the centuries?
 
 
 

Suggested Readings:

Aronson, Theo. Royal Family:  Years of Transition.  London: J. Murray, 1983.

Bogdanor, Vernon. The Monarchy and the Constitution.Oxford: Clarendon Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hayden, Ilse.  Symbol and Privilege: The Ritual Context of British Royalty.  Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.

Kelley, Kitty.  The Royals.  New York: Warner Books, 1997.

Nairn, Tom.  The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy. London: Radius, 1988.

Rowse, A. L.  Windsor Castle in the History of England. New York: Putnam [1974].

Taylor, John A.  British Monarchy, English Church Establishment, and Civil Liberty. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
 

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