Yasmine Meaden

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Lawrence Gordon, traumatised by the deceptions of his mother as a child, seeks to unearth domestic secrets via the increasing desire for the home telephone.

A Regency heiress in search of a husband can't wait to use more modern dating methods and enlists her two close friends in an unconventional scheme.