Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France
A Funny, History, Biography book. If history was taught the way Stephen Clarke writes in Dirty...
The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyleDespite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans, and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English. He was the first ever guest to climb the Eiffel Tower with Gustave Eiffel, in defiance of an official English ban on his visit. He turned his French seduction skills into the diplomatic prowess that sealed the Entente Cordiale. A quintessentially English king? Pas du tout! Stephen Clarke argues...
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- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9781780890340 / 0
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Written in a self-consciously chatty style that contains too many asides and diversions that try far too hard to be witty, this is nonetheless an interesting exploration of the life of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. From the stultifyingly Puritan atmosphere of his childhood and adolescence, through the louche... If history was taught the way Stephen Clarke writes in Dirty Bertie in school, kids would never fall asleep in history class. This thoroughly-researched semi-biography of Kind Edward VII is a fascinating look into the forces, from his stoic and puritanical upbringing to the seduction of French joie de vivre, that shaped the future king... This was a very informative and entertaining read on the life of Edward VII and his pleasure-loving ways. I learned some new facts about the relationship between the French and British like the long held recriminations about Joan of Arc and St Helena and another event in history I had never heard about: Fashoda. If you like history,...
