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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.</b> <p/>To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was poor Bertie, to his wife he was my dear little man, while the President of France called him a great English king, and the German Kaiser condemned him as an old peacock. King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert reveals Edward's dismal early years under Victoria's iron rule, his terror of boredom that led to a lively social life at home and abroad, and his eventual ascent to the throne at age 59. Edward is best remembered as the last Victorian king, the monarch who installed the office of Prime Minister.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The writing of history is an exercise in instruction; but that is no reason why it should not also be an exercise in rhetoric, for there is a <i>voluptas</i> to the texture of history that is best conveyed by good writing. Gibbon understood this, so did Macaulay and so did Carlyle in his own crabbed fashion. And so does Christopher Hibbert." --<i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT</b><b>, </b>a pearl of biographers (<i>New Statesman), </i> is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of <i>Disraeli </i> (Palgrave Macmillan), <i>The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, </i> <i>The English: A Social History, </i>and <i>Cavaliers and Roundheads.</i> He lives in Oxfordshire, England.

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