This is a study of often little-known and sometimes less than creditable episodes in the lives of the great and good of the Churchillian era. The author has had access to hitherto unpublished papers and closed archives and presents eight self-contained portraits. His chapters cover such subjects as the new Elizabethan age, the "House of Windsor and the Politics of Appeasement" and "Chruchill and the Multi-Racial Society". Andrew Roberts is also author of the biography of Lord Halifax, "The Holy Fox".