Just five years into Elizabeth II's reign, the young Queen was told she was putting the British monarchy at risk of being toppled.
The Queen of the Realm, Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith was called a "pain in the neck" and a "priggish schoolgirl", who was being led astray by her "tweedy" and "snobbish" courtiers.
"The Monarchy will not survive, let alone thrive, unless its leading figures exert themselves to the full, and with all the imagination they and their advisers can command," the editor of the National and English Review, Lord Altrincham, wrote in 1957.
