"A vibrant and welcome study of the monarchy’s early interaction with the mass media … An important insight into how British royalty has been adept at making itself a powerful, popular, and frequently uncontested presence."
-Twentieth-Century British History
"The royal family, famous for its inscrutability, has more than met its match in this resourceful young historian"
-Reviews in History
"Owens’s research is impressively resourceful and wide, and his interpretation is appropriately rich... This book is valuable for understandings of the twentieth-century British monarchy."
-English Historical Review