A prince he did a-wooing go, in 1826, in search of a wealthy English bride. Nothing unusual about that in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, when an entire army of Europe’s finest crossed the Channel to twirl their moustaches – ‘whiskered aliens’, harrumphed an outraged British gentleman of the press – and to show off their waltz steps in a country never known (despite the recent endeavours of Anton du Beke) for its dainty footwork.

Literary Review

Mar 2011

Categories

Miranda Seymour

Hostess with the Mostest

The Black Underwear was a Practical Choice

Corners of Foreign Fields

Palazzo Non Finito

The Marriage Plot

Crowning Glories

How Beautiful They Stand

The Real Donna Inez

Get with the Program

Passion For Cultivation

The Untouchables

Clasping Cupid

Sandwich Scandal

Herbal History

Family Affairs

Tales of the Workhouse

Seeds of Thought

Coming Into Bloom

Building A Life

Don’t Mention The War

Out of the Caskets

These Enchanted Woods

Lares Et Penates

No Don Juan