Patrick W. Montague-Smith Libros

Royal Jubilees celebrate significant periods in monarchs' reigns and the national life. In anticipation of the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in 1977 Country Life offers this wonderful photographic journey through Jubilees of the past.

Queen Elizabeth II is the descendant of a long line of kings and queens stretching back to the Anglo-Saxon Egbert. This guide includes diagrams that explain how the royal line of succession works in practice. Portraits of the sovereigns illustrate the text.