An exciting new biography of Edward VII, the playboy prince who changed the monarchy, by prizewinning historian and biographer Jane Ridley.
Jane Ridley is Professor of History at Buckingham University, where she teaches a course on biography. Her previous books include The Young Disraeli, acclaimed by Robert Blake as definitive, while her most recent biography, a highly praised study of the architect Edwin Lutyens and his relationship with his troubled wife, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2003. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ridley writes book reviews for the Spectator and other newspapers, and has also appeared on radio and several television documentaries. She lives in London and Scotland.
paints the story of Edward VII and his long, hectic life as Prince
of Wales in vivid colours: no scandal is left unturned, and yet the
depth and authenticity of the research make it clear that this is a
serious, even magesterial work
*Sunday Telegraph (Books of the Year)*
the best biography was Jane Ridley's Bertie ... Surprisingly, a
vast amount of new information, some of it truly eye-opening,
surfaced in this beautifully prepared and serious book
*Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year)*
A model of how royal biographies should be written... impeccably
researched, with much new material, balanced, sensible,
disrespectful without being offensive, funny, and a vivid portrait
of one of Britain’s most underrated and understudied monarchs
*Spectator (Books of the Year)*
Is all about changing perceptions of the rakish heir to the throne
who, his biographer insists, was less of a womaniser that commonly
thought and came into his own as king
*Sunday Times (Books of the Year)*
Hugely entertaining from first page to last... It is also scholarly
and revealing
*Evening Standard (Books of the Year)*
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