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The King in Love

Edward VII's Mistresses

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The King in Love

By: Theo Aronson
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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The King in Love is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womanizer, Edward VII - as prince of Wales and as king. 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.

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 colorful characters: Edward's beautiful and betrayed wife, Alexandra; the three cuckolded husbands - Edward Langtry, the earl of Warwick, and the Honorable George Keppel; the flamboyant Oscar Wilde; the sensuous Sarah Bernhardt; the dissipated Prince Albert Victor; and the sexually complex W. E. Gladstone.

Royal biographer Theo Aronson draws on new and unfamiliar material in this vivid book and reassesses many aspects of his subjects' lives. He 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 is gone forever.

©2014 Theo Aronson (P)2015 Tantor Historical Politicians Politics & Activism Royalty Marriage
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All aspects of history fascinate me…. Even Bertie’s many love affairs. But the author shows the other side of Edward VII, his need not only for sexual thrills but to be loved and mothered also, as well as companionship.
I enjoyed the book, even got used to the ‘breathy’ and slightly drawled narration! Excellent bed time reading.

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The book is interesting enough but the narrator speaks English haltingly and with many mispronunciations which really spoil the book. "Marlborough", a word which is used very often, is always "Marlburrow" and other names are oftem wrong. His emphasis is very strange - for example, what should be an "enormous looking-glass" becomes an "enormous-looking glass". Disappointing.

Terrible narration

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The text is relatively interesting if you are interested in the Edwardian age, but the narration is awful.
The accent of the narrator appears to be British English, but his pronunciation is decidedly american. So when speaking of Marlborough House it is pronounced as Marlboro, Derby (to sound like carb) is pronounced to sound like kerb. there are innumerable similar instances, which deter from concentrating on the content.

Terrible narration.

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Well written window into the discreet and sometimes not so discreet goings on from a bygone age. Brought perfectly to life by an excellent narrator.

Enlightening read

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A very interesting book.Queen Alexandra was a long suffering wife.
The book was ruined by the dreadful narrator .

Interesting

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