About this program
Jane Marguerite Tippett, author of Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII, and Martin Williams, author of The King is Dead, Long Live the King! Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain, will discuss the short but influential reigns of Edward VII and Edward VIII and the process and challenges of royal biography. Moderated by Leland Stange (Yale BA 2019), PhD candidate in political science, Yale University.
About the authors
Jane Marguerite Tippett is a historian and archivist. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a BA in French, history, and English literature. She received her master’s degree in history of art from Wadham College, Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation on the centrality of provenance in the contemporary fine art auction market. She has since worked as a consultant archivist and fine arts curator. Her new book, Once A King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII (2023), incorporates interviews and archival materials that have never before been made public. She lives and works in New York and London.
Martin Williams is an art historian and author with extensive experience in major international auction houses. He has a BA in English studies and history of art from Oxford Brookes University. For more than ten years he was a frequent contributor to Country Life magazine. His specialties are art history, social history, and royalty. His book, The King is Dead, Long Live the King! Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain (2023), charts a period of tension and transition after the death of King Edward VII (1841–1910). He lives and works in London.
Top image
Alfred J. Munnings, Royal Grey in State Harness, ca. 1925, oil on millboard, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection © Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings, Dedham, Essex. All rights reserved, DACS / ARS 2024
