Edward VII

The Last Victorian King

By: Christopher Hibbert, Hugh Thomas (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 26 May 2011 | Edition Number 2

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364 Pages

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A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.

To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old peacock." King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert reveals Edward's dismal early years under Victoria's iron rule, his terror of boredom that led to a lively social life at home and abroad, and his eventual ascent to the throne at age 59. Edward is best remembered as the last Victorian king, the monarch who installed the office of Prime Minister.

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"The writing of history is an exercise in instruction; but that is no reason why it should not also be an exercise in rhetoric, for there is a voluptas to the texture of history that is best conveyed by good writing. Gibbon understood this, so did Macaulay and so did Carlyle in his own crabbed fashion. And so does Christopher Hibbert." --The New York Times

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Foreword	p. ix
Author's Note and Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of Illustrations	p. xiv
Prince of Wales, 1841-1901
'Poor Bertie'	p. 3
'A Private Student'	p. 19
The Suitor	p. 36
The Bridegroom	p. 50
Marlborough House and Sandringham	p. 67
A Troubled Family	p. 81
Rounds of Pleasure	p. 93
The Prince Under Fire	p. 107
A Passage to India	p. 129
Exclusion	p. 140
'Other Ladies'	p. 153
'Inconvenient' Friends and 'Ill-bred' Children	p. 174
King, 1901-1910
King of the Castle	p. 191
The King at Work	p. 205
The King at Home	p. 221
The King Abroad	p. 236
L'Oncle de l'Europe	p. 249
The King and the Kaiser	p. 265
The Final Months	p. 280
Drawn Blinds	p. 297
Reference Notes	p. 306
Bibliography	p. 320
Index	p. 326
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