Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Part One King, Then and Later

1 Changing Tastes

2 Death of a Statesman

Part Two Keeping Secrets (or Trying to)

3 Psychic Newsflash

4 The Official Story

5 Striking an Unhappy Medium

Part Three No One Could Fool the People So Long

6 Statesman or Politician?

7 Blame Freud

8 Ferns and Ostry

9 Official Secrets

Part Four On the Precipice

10 End of an Era

11 Close-Up

12 Ravenous for the Remaining Courses

13 Final Spasm of Hypocrisy

14 To Open or Not to Open

Part Five The People Unfooled

15 Weird Willie

16 Victorianitis

17 The Cover-Up Is the Story

18 The Greatest Prime Minister?

Conclusion

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index