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Fascinating and well researched.... Dr. Swift is the first to concentrate on this unusual subject with such a wealth of sympathetic detail.
-Sarah Bradford, author of Americas Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth: A Biography of Britains Queen, and The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895--1952

A splendid addition to our understanding of an extraordinary Anglo-American partnership. Both intimate and expansive, Will Swifts vigorously researched book is timely, illuminating, and dramatic.
-Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933 and Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 2: The Defining Years, 1933-1938

The Anglo-American alliance has long been a bedrock of the global order, and Will Swifts The Roosevelts and the Royals details an important chapter in that fascinating story with warmth and verve.
-Jon Meacham, author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship-a great story!
-James MacGregor Burns, author of The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America and Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom

A gripping account of four very different lives that were woven together to change the world in wartime.
-Hugo Vickers, author of Cecil Beaton and Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece

Written in fluid and lucid prose, this book is not only eminently readable but also historically illuminating. It explores the contrasting personalities of the four main protagonists with skill and insight and it is both convincing and refreshingly candid.
-Brian Roberts, author of Randolph: A Study of Churchills Son and Cecil Rhodes and the Princess

This book brings to life my grandmother and her royal friends. Reading it, I found myself reliving the times I shared with them. A wonderful story.
-Nina Roosevelt Gibson, Ph.D., psychologist and granddaughter of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt

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THE ROOSEVELTS

THE ROYALS

For Kevin Jacobs and Jim Wilcox.

In memory of my British-American mother, Maud, who would have been so delighted. She died of Alzheimers the week the book was completed.

And to my dear friend Theo Aronson, whose vivacious brilliance and love of the Queen Mother helped inspire this book.

Preface

Although I did not know it at the time, I began working on this book when I was eleven years old. Already a confirmed Anglophile, I had heard that the official biography of King George VI had been published in the United States, and I badgered my British-American mother for a month until she relented and drove me thirty minutes north of our home in Melrose, Massachusetts, to a biography bookstore, where I purchased the book. At the back of the biography was a large fold-out genealogical chart of the descendants of Queen Victoria, showing that the king was a cousin of the monarchs of Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia.

The book and its chart ignited a lifelong passion for studying history and biography. One of my earliest memories is of watching Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation on television when I was five years old. As the grandson of a British Protestant minister, and of a New England charities banker who was an avid genealogist and traced the familys roots through the Mayflower back to England, I know that my passion makes some sense.

As a boy, I also had what I thought was a completely separate interest in U.S. presidential history and in presidential families. Growing up in Massachusetts and summering at Cape Cod, at times I would cross paths with the Kennedys in Hyannisport. Shortly after reading the kings biography, I became captivated by the presidency of John F. Kennedy. My fascination with the Kennedys led me to their rivals, the Roosevelts. In 1971, when Joseph Lash published his landmark biography of Eleanor and Franklin, I became enthralled with their forty-year relationship. As I completed my doctorate in clinical psychology and began a practice specializing in couples therapy, I became intrigued with how a husband and wife managed the rhythms of closeness and separateness within a marriage, the effect of political and public life on a marriage, and how couples kept a marriage together for higher purposes; and also with the challenges faced by the children of important public figures. I began to see the Roosevelts and the Kennedys (and later the Adamses and the Bushes) as Americas democratic versions of the British royal dynasty, possessed of great contradiction and complexity and full of drama that illuminated the nations experience.

My interest in both the Roosevelts and the royal family has taken various forms over the last twenty-five years. In 1981 I founded the Royalty Bookshop in New York City. The next year I began the Royal Commemorative Association of North America, an international association of passionate royal history buffs and collectors, and edited its journal, Sceptre, which offered interviews with prominent royal historians, reviews of royal books, and articles on royal history and collecting. In 1983 I curated the show Three Hundred Years of British Royal History, mounted at Bloomingdales as part of the Britain Salutes New York celebrations. The show displayed royal commemoratives and memorabilia from the time of the Stuarts up until the first years of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales. In August 2000 I organized British royal historians for a celebration of the Queen Mothers one hundredth birthday. A Century of Generosity was mounted at the Asprey and Garrard store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and included over fifty of the Queen Mothers Christmas cards covering the period from 1928 until the present, along with photographs from her life and written tributes from historians. The Queen Mother sent a message to say how much it meant to her to have a retrospective in the United States. Partly as a result of the exhibition, during the last months of her life the Queen Mother offered to support The Roosevelts and the Royals by sharing her thoughts about the Roosevelts and their Hyde Park picnic.

I also wrote for Majesty magazine, focusing on the British royal family, beginning in 1984 with an article on Queen Victorias gifted, hemophiliac son Prince Leopold. The final inspiration for this book came in 2001 when Majesty magazine asked me to write an article chronicling the relationship between British monarchs and U.S. presidents. My article, Resolute Relations, spanned more than a hundred and fifty years, from Queen Victoria and President James Buchanan through Franklin Roosevelt and George VI, to Elizabeth II and eleven U.S. presidents beginning with Harry Truman. I became fascinated with the significance of the alliance between the Roosevelts and the royal family, as evidenced in two decades of correspondence between the two familiesmost vividly in their wartime lettersand was surprised by the extent and the calculation of the British governments carefully orchestrated campaign to win the United States to Englands side in the 1930s and 1940s, when democracy was threatened by totalitarianism.

I began researching this book in the archives of Franklin Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York. Impressed with the wealth of letters and material there about the king and queens 1939 state visit to Washington and Hyde Park, I continued my research at the Royal Archives in Windsor Castle, where I found further confirmation of the breadth of the connection between the British royal family and the Roosevelts. Also contributing to my understanding of Eleanor and Franklin were several of the Roosevelt grandchildren, most particularly Christopher Roosevelt and Nina Gibson, who were extremely generous with their time and their reminiscences.

As an outgrowth of my research on the Roosevelts relationship with the royal family, I represented the Roosevelt family in negotiations with the Queen Mothers private secretary to obtain a statement from the Queen Mother for placement on a plaque in Top Cottage, the site of the famous picnic, at the Hyde Park historical site. I met with her private secretary, Sir Alistair Aird, at Clarence House on March 27, 2002, to decide what personal statements would be most appropriate. At that meeting, he said that it is a very dark daythe Queen Mother had grown quite illand that he would be leaving after our talk to go to Windsor to visit the Queen Mother. It would be their last meeting.

Three days later the Queen Mother died, in her one hundred and second year, the last surviving leader of the generation that saw the Allies through World War II. Elizabeths death renewed attention to her extraordinary life and her role as a symbol of Britains pluck during World War II, whenalong with her husband, King George VI, and Winston Churchillshe rallied Britons to heroism.

In The Roosevelts and the Royals, I tell the story of Queen Elizabeth and King Georges crucial bond with Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, a connection that began as a vital democratic partnership allied against tyranny and grew into a personal and political friendship that helped shape history.

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