The King in Love

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Here for the first time is an all-embracing account of the loves of that royal womaniser Edward VII as Prince of Wales and King.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love - his `official' mistresses Lillie Langtry Daisy Warwick and Alice Keppel. In their different ways all three were exceptional personalities; Lillie Langtry the socially ambitious girl from the vicarage became a famous actress; Daisy Warwick an immensely wealthy heiress and social butterfly was converted to socialism; Alice Keppel probably the King's greatest love developed into an astute and fascinating figure in her own right.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Spanning three decades and packed with incident scandal and high romance the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society. It is full of colourful characters: Edward's beautiful and betrayed wife Alexandra; the three cuckolded husbands - Edward Langtry the Earl of Warwick and the Hon. George Keppel; the flamboyant Oscar Wilde; the sensuous Sarah Bernhardt; the dissipated Prince Albert Victor; and the sexually complex W.E. Gladstone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>The King in Love</em> </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>challenges long-established myths and reveals much that was hitherto unknown: not least the extraordinary scene that took place at the deathbed of King Edward VII. The result is a brilliant evocation of a world and a way of life that has gone forever.</span></p>