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    The Last Hurrah: South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947

    By Graham Viney

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    In The Last Hurrah, Graham Viney has written a fascinating account of a pivotal moment in South African history. In vivid prose he describes the background to the Royal Tour and its progress across the country in the specially commissioned white train. More than this, Viney provides interesting analysis of the politics of the time and the society, fractious as ever, which welcomed King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and their two daughters, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

    The tour was a show of Empire solidarity and a recognition of South Africa’s role and contribution to the Allied cause during World War II, and more specifically of Prime Minister Jan Smuts. Despite controversy, wherever the tour took the Royal Family, South Africans of all races turned out in their thousands to cheer and welcome them. But one year later, in 1948, Smuts’ government was defeated in a general election and the Nationalists under D.F. Malan came to power setting South Africa inexorably on the path to Republic. The tour had truly been British South Africa’s last hurrah.

    The Last Hurrah draws on sources from far and wide, including the Royal Archive at Windsor, and a selection of never-before published photographs of the royal family on tour.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Ball
    Release dateOct 17, 2018
    ISBN9781868429257
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    The Last Hurrah: South Africa and the Royal Tour of 1947
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    Graham Viney

    GRAHAM VINEY was educated at the Diocesan College (Bishops), Cape Town, and Oxford University where he read International Relations. He runs an international design company, and, in addition to numerous papers and articles has written two books, Colonial Houses of South Africa and The Cape of Good Hope, 1806 – 1872.

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      A very detailed study into a forgotten event, in a forgotten period of history. The book refutes the myth that South Africa was on the same path as Australia or Canada after WW2, and that only the events of 1948 turned it into an unsalvageable dump. In fact the book makes it clear the racial and ethnic hate was waiting for its chance long before 1948.