Edward the Rake

Author:   John Pearson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781448208036


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   25 April 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Growing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria’s court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents’ expectation. He was far from a brilliant student, and though charming, his carnal inclinations were widely rumoured to have sped up his Father’s decline, with Prince Albert dying a mere two weeks after Bertie spent three nights with an actress who had been smuggled into his military camp. He waited almost sixty years to ascend the throne but was nonetheless able to reconfigure the public image of the monarch, taking the splendour beyond the palace gates and living lavishly in wider society, rapidly becoming one of the most popular monarchs in the history of the crown. First published in 1975, these chapters in the life of Edward the Rake are dealt with frankly and light-heartedly. It is the story of a man who enjoyed himself and his indelicate advantages to the full, it is a penetrating and yet not unsympathetic portrait of the monarch and of the discreetly swinging social world that he created around him.

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Author:   John Pearson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Reader
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.221kg
ISBN:  

9781448208036


ISBN 10:   1448208033
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   25 April 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 'That Dreadful Business at the Curragh' 2 The Making of the Royal Rake 3 But Bertie 4 The Rake's Apprentice 5 Rake in Trouble 6 The Bismarck of Society 7 The Game Gone Wrong 8 The Rake Steps Out 9 The Rake at Forty 10 The Malady of Love 11 Rake's Haven

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Author Website:   http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=14898

John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. He has worked on various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times, and The Sunday Times where for a time he wrote the Atticus column. After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers in The Profession of Violence and has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family following his earlier successes.

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Author Website:   http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/details.aspx?tpid=14898

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