The popular Netflix series The Crown covers the tumultuous period
from the Queen’s accession in 1952 to the present day, and so
does this book, which explores the rise, decline and—to
some—unexpected rebound of the historic UK, Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand alliance. While a post-Brexit and post-Elizabethan
Britain seeks a new role in today’s volatile world, its
traditional partner countries also recognise the logic of
reinvigorating their relationship, based on a multitude of
still-strong cultural, economic, political, and military ties,
including the monarchy as a uniquely shared global, and not merely
British, institution. But this wasn’t always the case. Although
in the 1950s commentators spoke of a new "Elizabethan Age" with
much postwar hope across the Commonwealth, that optimism quickly
faded. By the 1970s, many thought Britain washed up and that Crown
and Commonwealth ties and allegiance were becoming obsolete.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the four countries increasingly went their
separate ways. So, a groggy time-traveller from that period
appearing in London, Toronto, Sydney, or Auckland today would be
taken by surprise by the durability of the Crown, even as it has
passed to King Charles, and the growing reconvergence of the four
"CANZUK" realms in terms of trade, defence, foreign policy
coordination, freedom of movement, mutual recognition of
professional qualifications, and other new or revived links. This
book evocatively tells the whole story of where we are, what’s
possible for the future, and not least how we got here. In
today’s age of global instability and raw power politics, this
renewed Anglosphere Crown Commonwealth alliance is more important
and relevant than ever.
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