The King in Love by Theo Aronson (1988, Hardcover, First US Edition)

The King in Love
Edward VII's Mistresses:  Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, Alice Keppel and Others
by Theo Aronson
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
Copyright 1988
FIRST U.S. EDITION

Here, for the first time, is an all-embracing account of the celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII, and of the three women who became his official mistresses and greatest loves.

Edward, both as Prince of Wales and King of England, was in his day the most fashionable figure in European society.  Genial, charming, and kind, he was an unabashed hedonist who lived in what his disapproving mother, Queen Victoria, called "a whirl of amusements."  And more than any other pursuit, Edward loved making love, and while he was faithful to no one, he did love three women deeply:  in succession, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick, and Alice Keppel.

In their different ways, all three women were exceptional personalities:  Lillie Langtry, the socially ambitious vicar's daughter and professional beauty who became a world-famous actress; Daisy Brooke, the Countess of Warwick, an immensely wealthy heiress and social butterfly who became a self-styled socialist; and Alice Keppel, probably the King's greatest love, who was an accepted member of his entourage from the time he ascended the throne until his death.

Spanning three decades and packed with incident, scandal, and high romance, The King in Love is set in the extravagant, hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society.  It is full of fascinating characters, including the king's beautiful, betrayed wife Alexandra, who showed the world a smiling face through all her 'naughty little man's infidelities; the three husbands, Edward Langtry, the Earl of Warwick, and the Hon. George Keppel; Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Prime Minister Gladstone, the infamous courtesan Skittles, and those paragons of respectability, Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages may be tanning and discolored from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanning from age and edges are rubbed from shelf wear.

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