Sarah Bradford
Prince of Pleasure
Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King
By Richard Davenport-Hines
Allen Lane 140pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
Vita Sackville-West described Edwardian England as ‘a world where pleasure fell like a ripened peach for the outstretching of a hand’. One hand that would certainly have been greedily outstretched was that of Edward VII, whose extravagant, pleasure-loving nature in many ways defined his kingdom, as Richard Davenport-Hines demonstrates in this entertaining book in the Penguin Monarchs series.
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