From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Queen and Diana, a groundbreaking story of the riveting hot-and-cold relationship between the House of Windsor and Winston Churchill. From an early age, Winston Churchill was convinced that he was a man of destiny. Today, it seems his premonition was correct—few figures in British history have been so deeply and consequently involved with the British family as Churchill. While many people in positions of power have advised kings and queens during their reign, Churchill was unique in his role: helping to shape not only a reign, but an entire royal dynasty. In Winston and the Windsors, Andrew Morton, one of the world’s best-known biographers and a leading authority on celebrity, presents a meticulously researched joint biography of Winston Churchill and the House of Windsor. Throughout the course of his career and life, Churchill’s connection to the Windsors fluctuated wildly. At times, he was the royal family’s trusted confidant. At others, he was their leading antagonist. In exploring the complex dynamic between the two, Morton argues that, regardless of whether the attitudes of the royal family were warm or icy toward Churchill, their relationship was central to the twentieth-century history of the British monarchy. From the Churchill family’s intricate relationship with the Crown, to Winston’s initially begrudging but ultimately fruitful partnership with George VI, to his enduring fondness for Queen Elizabeth II, this fascinating narrative biography sheds new light on the ways the Crown not only shaped Winston Churchill's career, but the ways in which Churchill shepherded the monarchy into the modern era.

アンドリュー・モートンは、チャーチルを王室の宿命を導く稀代の演出家として描き出しました。本作の白眉は、彼とウィンザー家の間に流れる、熱狂と冷淡が入り混じる濃密な愛憎劇です。時に守護者となり、時に峻烈な批判者となったチャーチルの多面性は、歴史を動かす個人の意志がいかに強固であるかを鮮烈に示し、読者の魂を激しく揺さぶります。 また、本作は伝統に固執する王室が現代へ脱皮する、その過酷な変遷を浮き彫りにします。ジョージ6世やエリザベス2世との絆は、単なる職務を超えた、時代を創る者同士の魂の共鳴です。没落と栄光の狭間で揺れる君主制を、一人の巨人の視点から再定義した本作は、事実の重みと叙情が融合した、至高の人間ドラマといえるでしょう。