King's Counsellor. Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis, Paperback/Sir Alan Lascelles

'Tommy' Lascelles was Private Secretary to four monarchs - and depicted in The Crown. These diaries reveal the inside story of the royal household during the abdication crisis, the second world war and the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend affair'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator