A Few Royal Occasions

This slim 1977 anthology, selected by Sue Bradbury, reprints short passages from earlier publications that concern the kings and queens of Britain. The extracts describe coronations, courts, progresses, and crises as seen by chroniclers, memoirists, and later historians rather than as a continuous royal biography. Figures from several centuries appear in isolated scenes: a monarch at ceremony, in captivity, or among household officers. The book is a sampler of royal history for reading in sittings, not a textbook. Its unity is thematic-occasions of kingship-rather than narrative, and it assumes the reader will take each piece as a self-contained glimpse of court life.

Bound in white cloth lithographed in red, blue, yellow and green with a contemporary print. Plain white endpapers. No dust-jacket or slipcase. Published as an additional title, outside the general programme. Folio Press.