All the World Loves a Lover
Monarchy, Mass Media and the 1934 Royal Wedding of Prince George and Princess Marina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9737731 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Owens (University of Lincoln, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 133 |
| Issue | 562 |
| Pages | 597-633 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cey092 |
| OpenAlex | W2803264664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay examines the little-studied 1934 royal wedding of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the youngest surviving son of George V and the famously glamorous Princess Marina of Greece to argue that the British media projected this event on a scale, and in ways, never seen before. More than on any previous occasion it was a royal event driven by intimate publicity, and by a coterie of courtiers, clerics and newsmen who were committed to elevating a ‘family monarchy’ as the emotional centre-point of national life. I suggest that this celebration of royal domesticity engendered popular support for the House of Windsor in a period characterised by political turbulence at home and abroad. In this vein, I argue that social elites orchestrated royal family events as mass mediated nation-building exercises designed to create loyal subjects to the Crown, and that new technologies transformed how media audiences and royalty interacted with one another
Art · Art history · George (robot · Media studies · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Publicity · Royal family · Sociology · Windsor · History · Irish and British Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |