Constitutional Reform Centre, has generously allowed me to include
parts of a pamphlet, 'No Overall Majority: Forming a Government
in a Multi-Party Parliament', which I wrote for the Centre in 1986,
in Chapter 6 of the book.

Jessica Douglas-Home kindly allowed me to look at an unpub-
lished manuscript on the monarchy by her late husband, Charles,
which I hope will in due course be published.

The late Frances Donaldson was kind enough to show me the
notes she had made for her biography of Edward VIII, which has
always seemed to me one of the best books ever written on the
monarchy. I am very grateful to her for her encouragement and I am
only sorry that she did not survive to see my own book.

I owe thanks to the following for reading and commenting on
either the whole or parts of the manuscript--Dr John Blair, Michael
Brock, Dr David Butler, the Rt Hon. Sir Zelman Cowen, the Revd
Professor Peter Hinchliffe, Dr Harry Judge, Janet Lewis-Jones, Dr
Paul Langford, the Hon. Sir Gavin Lightman, Don Markwell, Dr
Geoffrey Marshall, the Hon. Sir Humphrey Maud, Professor Robert
O'Neill, the Rt Revd Lord Runcie, Dr E. A. Smith, Michael Steed,
and the Very Revd James Weatherhead. They have all improved the
text to its great benefit but none of them is to be implicated in my
arguments, still less in my errors.

I am grateful also to Tim Barton and Hilary Walford of Oxford
University Press for the patience and skill with which they have
handled the manuscript; and to Jane Shafto and Pat Spight for their
efficient secretarial help.

The Principal and Fellows of Brasenose have provided both intel-
lectual stimulus and warm friendship over many years and I count
myself fortunate in being a member of so uniquely enlightened a
society.

But my greatest debt is to my wife and to my two sons, Paul and
Adam, not only for putting up with my long absences at the word
processor, but also for encouraging me throughout.

Vernon Bogdanor
Brasenose College, Oxford
April 1995

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