What's amazing is that the Family accomplished their new identity with so little objection from their subjects.

Later, in 1937, George V's grandson, Geoge VI, was coronated May 12, 1937, after his brother had abdicated.

Several years ago, I came across an original May 20 1937 Commemorative issue of the Times of London, chronicling George VI's coronation.

Having bought that paper for $10, I perused it. The contents was so interesting that I began researching the state of the European world at that time. Three years later I published a novel, Smoke, that tells a story about the European clash of Axis fascism against British/French democracy as it was building up tension in 1937.

The Windsors survived all that. Who knows if they'll survive the onslaught of 21st-century tabloid pursuit.