Betty Blue Eyes

Belts are being tightened and the country's long suffering citizens are being told by the government that there will be fair shares for all in return for surviving Austerity Britain.  Meanwhile, local officials feather their own nests by taking far more than their own fair share.  It is, of course, 1947, and having won the war Britian seems to have lost the peace and the country is staggering under the burden of acute rationing, unemployment and the coldest winter for decades.  The only bright spark is the impending marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten.