These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts. And yet underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir, with JF Kennedy, the pill, Bob Dylan, Mary Quant and the Beatles symbols of an exuberant youthquake.
This essential book published ahead of the Coronation of King Charles III explains the significance and meaning of monarchy in its all-important sacred and spiritual dimensions.