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2. Ibid.
3. Virginia Cowles, Gay Monarch: The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII (London: Harper, 1956), p 214.
4. Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 41.
5. Anita Leslie, Edwardians in Love (London: Hutchinson, 1972), p. 296.
6. Anita Leslie, The Marlborough House Set (New York: Doubleday, 1973), p. 252.
7. Ibid.
8. John Pearson, Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), p. 131.
9. Leslie, Edwardians in Love, p. 294.
10. Anne Sebba, Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother (London: John Murray, 2007), p. 96.
11. https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/lillie-langtry/.
12. Leslie, Edwardians in Love, p. 123.
13. Aronson, The King in Love, p. 58.
14. Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew (North Hollywood, Calif.: Panoply Publications, 2005), p. 99.
15. Aronson, The King in Love, p. 60.
16. Leslie, Edwardians in Love, p. 153.
1. A YOUTHFUL INDISCRETION
1. Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 40.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. The late Lord Litchfield’s comment on the impact of military school, circa 1982.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 41.
8. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 54.
9. Allen Andrews, The Follies of King Edward VII (London: Lexington, 1975), p. 75.
10. Giles St. Aubyn, Edward VII: Prince and King (London: Collins, 1979), p. 63.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., p. 64.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 65.
21. Ibid., p. 66.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 46.
27. St. Aubyn, op. cit., p. 67.
28. Andrews, op. cit., p. 76.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ridley, op. cit., p. 57.
32. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 47.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 48.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., p. 47.
37. Ibid., p. 49.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., p. 50.
42. Ibid.
2. A ROYAL WEDDING
1. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 73.
2. Denis Judd, Edward VII: A Pictorial Biography (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975), p. 29.
3. http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/382032/The-first-Queen-of-Hearts.
4. Ibid.
5. http://www.guildhallhistoricalassociation.org.uk/docs/TheWeddingofthePrinceofWales.pdf.
6. Ibid.
7. Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 60.
8. Ibid., pp. 60–61.
9. Ibid., p. 60.
10. http://www.guildhallhistoricalassociation.org.uk/docs/TheWeddingofthePrinceofWales.pdf.
11. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 61.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Allen Andrews, The Follies of King Edward VII (London: Lexington, 1975), p. 83.
15. Hibbert, op. cit., pp. 61–62.
16. Ibid., p. 62.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 63.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 64.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
3. “GAY PAREE AND LONDON LOWLIFE”
1. Giles St. Aubyn, Edward VII: Prince and King (London: Collins, 1979), p. 83.
2. Anita Leslie, Edwardians in Love (London: Hutchison, 1972), p. 281.
3. Denis Judd, Edward VII: A Pictorial Biography (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975), p. 30.
4. Ibid.
5. Leslie, op. cit., p. 282.
6. Judd, op. cit., p. 30.
7. Leslie, op. cit., p. 282.
8. Ernest Dudley, The Gilded Lily (London: Odhams Press, 1958), p. 43.
9. Cowles, Virginia, Gay Monarch: The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII (London: Harper, 1956), p. 214.
10. Dudley, op. cit., p. 43.
11. Ibid.
12. John Pearson, Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975), p. 50.
13. Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 99.
14. Pearson, op. cit., p. 52.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., pp. 59–60.
19. Diana Souhami, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), p. 34.
20. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 31.
21. Pearson, op. cit., p. 44.
22. Ibid.
23. Allen Andrews, The Follies of King Edward VII (London: Lexington, 1975), p. 98.
24. Ibid., p. 92.
25. Ibid., p. 98.
26. Ibid., p. 101.
27. Joanna Richardson, The Courtesans (New Jersey: Castle Books, 2004), p. 3.
28. Katie Hickman, Courtesans (London: Harper Perennial, 2003), p. 234.
29. Ibid., p. 278.
30. James Brough, The Prince and the Lily (London: Coronet, 1975), p. 146.
31. Hickman, op. cit., p. 281.
32. Ibid., p. 303.
33. Ridley, op. cit., p. 166.
34. Richardson, op. cit., pp. 20–21.
35. Ibid., p. 23.
36. Leslie, op. cit., p. 70.
37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson_de_Talleyrand-Périgord.
38. Leslie, op. cit., p. 71.
39. Ibid., p. 72.
40. Ibid.
41. Pearson, op. cit., p. 49.
42. Ibid.
43. Giles St. Aubyn, Edward VII: Prince and King, p. 156.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., p. 157.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid., p. 158.
51. Ibid., p. 159.
4. MORDAUNT VS. MORDAUNT
1. John Pearson, Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975), p. 66.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 106.
5. Roger Wilkes, “Sex Mad—and Off to the Asylum to Prove It,” Daily Telegraph, January 16, 2002.
6. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 125.
7. Michael Havers, Edward Grayson, and Peter Shankland
The Royal Baccarat Scandal (London: Souvenir Press, 1988), p. 20.
8. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 107.
9. Ibid.
10. Pearson, op. cit., p. 67.
11. Havers, op. cit., p. 20.
12. Theo Lang, My Darling Daisy (London: Michael Joseph, 1966), p. 39.
13. Ibid.
14. Havers, op. cit., p. 20.
15. Hibbert, op. cit., p. 107.
16. Ibid., pp. 107–8.
17. Ibid., p. 108.
18. Ibid.
19. Ridley, op. cit., p. 133.
20. Ibid.
5. JENNIE CHURCHILL, THE DOLLAR PRINCESS
1. Anne Sebba, Jennie Churchill: Winston’s American Mother (London: John Murray, 2008), pp. 16–17.
2. Anita Leslie, Jennie: The Mother of Winston Churchill (Maidstone, UK: George Mann, 1969), p. 8.
3. Ibid., p. 9.
4. Ibid., p. 11.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 15.
7. Sebba, op. cit., p. 28.
8. Ibid., p. 23.
9. Leslie, op. cit., p. 11.
10. Ibid., p. 16.
11. Ibid., p. 17.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 18.
14. Ibid., p. 19.
15. Ibid.
16. Leslie, op. cit., p. 22.
17. Sebba, op. cit., p. 35.
18. Leslie, op. cit., p. 24.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 26.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., p. 39.
26. Sebba, op. cit., p. 40.
27. Leslie, op. cit., pp. 27–28.
28. Ibid., p. 28.
29. Sebba, op. cit., p. 49.
30. Ibid., p. 29.
31. Ibid., p. 51.
32. Ibid., p. 52.
33. Leslie, op. cit., p. 32.
34. Sebba, op. cit., p. 55.
35. Ibid., p. 53.
36. Leslie, op. cit., p. 37.
37. Sebba, op. cit., p. 58.
38. Ibid., p. 59.
39. Ibid., p. 61.
40. Ibid., p. 62.
41. Leslie, op. cit., p. 59.
42. Ibid., p. 39.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid., p. 40.
45. Ibid., p. 42.
46. Ibid.
47. Sebba, op. cit., p. 68.
48. Leslie, op. cit., p. 117.
6. THE AYLESFORD SCANDAL
1. Anita Leslie, Edwardians in Love (London: Hutchinson, 1972), p. 68.
2. Ibid., pp. 84–85.
3. Ibid., p. 85.
4. Allen Andrews, The Follies of King Edward VII (London: Lexington, 1975), p. 125.
5. Leslie, op. cit., p. 85.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., p. 86.
9. Ibid., p. 87.
10. Ibid., p. 86.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 87.
14. Ibid., p. 86.
15. Ibid., p. 87.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 92.
18. Leslie, op. cit., p. 87.
19. Ibid., p. 91.
20. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 187.
21. Ibid.
22. Leslie, op. cit., p. 87.
23. Ibid., p. 88.
24. Ridley, op. cit., p. 190.
25. Leslie, op. cit., p. 88.
26. Ridley, op. cit., p. 188.
27. Leslie, op. cit., p. 88.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid., p. 91.
31. Ridley, op. cit., p. 186.
32. Leslie, op. cit., p. 89.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., p. 88.
35. Ibid., p. 89.
36. Ibid., p. 90.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 91.
39. Ibid., p. 90.
40. Ibid.
41. Ridley, op. cit., p. 198.
42. Anita Leslie, The Marlborough House Set (New York: Doubleday, 1973), p. 63.
43. Leslie, Edwardians in Love, p. 92.
44. Ibid., p. 93.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., p. 92.
48. Ibid.
7. THE JERSEY TOMBOY
1. Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew (North Hollywood, Calif.: Panoply Publications, 2005), p. 15.
2. Ibid., p. 17.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 20.
5. Ibid., p. 22.
6. Ibid., p. 23.
7. Ibid., p. 25.
8. Ibid., p. 26.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., p. 27.
12. Ibid., p. 28.
13. Laura Beatty, Lillie Langtry: Manners, Masks and Morals (London: Vintage, 2000), p. 25.
14. Ibid., p. 25.
15. Langtry, op. cit., p. 29.
16. Ibid.
17. Beatty, op. cit., p. 17.
18. Ibid.
19. Langtry, op. cit., p. 24.
20. Beatty, op. cit., p. 23.
21. Ernest Dudley, The Gilded Lily (London: Odhams Press, 1958), p. 32.
22. Theo Aronson, The King in Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 26.
23. Dudley, op. cit., p. 34.
24. Aronson, op. cit., p. 26.
25. Ibid.
26. Beatty, op. cit., p. 25.
27. Dudley, op. cit., p. 34.
28. Langtry, op. cit., p. 30.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid.
8. TAKING LONDON BY STORM
1. Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew (North Hollywood, Calif.: Panoply Publications, 2005), p. 31.
2. Ibid.