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The Crown Jewels

The Elizabeth Garden at Kenilworth

James, Duke of Monmouth

The Magnificent Monarch


The Crown Jewels

The Elizabethan Tower of London

The Earl of Essex

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Anna Keay's publicationsThe Crown Jewels

Anna's latest book was published in September 2011. It tells the history of the most spectacular and complete collection of royal regalia in the world. The priceless objects now in the Tower of London were created to be the embodiment of sovereignty, and their story is that of the English monarchy itself – from the 12th-century spoon used for the anointing at the coronation to the platinum crown created for Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1937.


Bibliography: Books

The Crown Jewels, Thames & Hudson and the Royal Collection, 2011
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‘The shadow of a king?: the exile of Charles II of Great Britain’, in Torsten Riotte, ed., Monarchy in Exile. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
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‘Charles II and the reconstruction of monarchy’ in Marcello Fantoni, George Gorse and Malcolm Smuts,eds., The Politics of Space: Courts in Europe and the Mediterranean, c. 1500-1750. Bulzoni, 2009

The Magnificent Monarch: Charles II and the Ceremonies of Power. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2008
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The White Tower, Edward Impey, ed.. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Author of all three post-medieval chapters (about 20,000 words) covering the history of the castle from 1485 to 2000.
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The Elizabethan Tower of London: the Haiward and Gascoyne Plan of 1597. London: London Topographical Society, 2001
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Bibliography: Academic Journals

Kenilworth Castle and its landscape, 1580-1700', English Heritage Historical Review, V, 2011.

 ‘The later Stuart paintings in the Suffolk CollectionEnglish Heritage Historical Review, I, 2006, pp. 62-74

‘The presentation of Guardianship sitesTransactions of the Ancient Monuments Society, 48, April 2004, pp. 7-20

Bibliography: Other

'17th century monarchy', introductory essay for State Papers On-line 1603-1714, Prof John Miller, ed., 2010. http://gale.cengage.co.uk/state-papers-online-15091714/part-iii.aspx

'The Crown Jewels', Country Life, 23 May 2010.

‘Charles II and Windsor Castle’ Country Life. April, 2009.

‘The shadow of a king? The exile of King Charles II’, History Today, July 2008

‘“Toyes and Trifles” the destruction of the English Crown Jewels’, History Today, 52 (7), July 2002, pp. 31-7

The Crown Jewels, official guidebook. London: Historic Royal Palaces, 2002

The Earl of Essex: the Life and Death of a Tudor Traitor (accompanying the exhibition of the same name). London: Historic Royal Palaces, 2001