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How Monarchs Succeed

As the accession of Edward VII shows, a new British monarch must represent the nation’s values – whatever that nation and those values are.

Michael Ledger-Lomas | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 11 November 2022

A queue of mourners attend the lying in state of George V at Westminster Abbey, 27 January 1936.
A queue of mourners attend the lying in state of George V at Westminster Abbey, 27 January 1936. TopFoto.

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