Nicola Smith. The Royal Image and the English family Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001 Pp xii, 234 $8495 ISBN 1-84014-672-9
Today the image of royalty is ubiquitous. In Canada, Britain, and Australia, for instance, we papal court the queen's head on stamps, coins, and banknotes. Images of the royal family figure prominently forward television and in magazines, and, all too ofttimes on the front pages of the tabloids. thus the subject is a excessively appropriate one for historical close attention Nicola Smith's The Royal Image and/he English race however, delivers less than its title promises. There is