THE KING IN LOVE: EDWARD VII’ S MISTRESSES
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B75999
English Summary/英文概要： Here, for the first time, is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and 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. In their different ways, all three were exceptional personalities. Lillie Langtry, the socially ambitious girl from the vicarage, became a famous actress. Daisy Warwick, an immensely wealthy heiress and social butterfly, was converted to socialism. Alice Keppel, probably the King’s greatest love, developed into an astute and fascinating figure in her own right.
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 colourful characters: Edward’s beautiful and betrayed wife Alexandra; the three cuckolded husbands — Edward Langtry, the Earl of Warwick and the Hon. George Keppel; the flamboyant Oscar Wilde; the sensuous Sarah Bernhardt; the dissipated Prince Albert Victor; the sexually complex W.E. Gladstone.
Royal biographer Theo Aronson draws on much 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 has gone forever.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在这本皇室传记中，作者首都披露了那为著名的皇家好色之徒，爱德华七世，身为威尔士亲王和国王的情感世界。本书也首次深入研究了与国王最深爱的三个女人 — — 他公开的情妇，莉莉•兰特里，黛西•沃里克和爱丽丝•凯珀尔。以不同的方式，所有三个特殊的人物。莉莉•兰特里，从一位来自教区的女孩，到成为一位雄心勃勃的善于社交的，后来成为了一个著名的演员。黛西•沃里克一个非常富有的女继承人和社交花，后来转变为社会主义者。爱丽丝•凯珀尔，可能是国王的最爱，最后运用自己的能力，成为了一个精明、使人着迷的女子。横跨三十年和其中的所穿插的插曲、丑闻和风流韵事，为我们拉开了一副维多利亚后期，爱德华七世时代的社会的奢侈和虚伪的实景图。这是一个充满了各色人物的时代： 爱德华美丽而不忠的妻子亚历山德拉；三次受到羞辱戴绿帽子的丈夫 — — 爱德华•兰特里，沃里克伯爵和霍恩。乔治•凯珀尔;绚丽的奥斯卡•王尔德;感性莎拉•伯恩哈特;沉迷于酒色的阿尔伯特•维克托亲王;复杂的雌雄难分的W.E.葛兰德斯通。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 西奥•阿伦森是为数不多的一位能获得皇室认可的一位传记作者。作为一位拉脱维亚的犹太店主儿子，他出生在南非的柯克伍德，与奈杰尔•霍桑在开普敦大学求学之前，曾就读于伊丽莎白港高中。在约翰内斯堡，他和J.Walter Thompson成为了一名商业广告艺术家，随后搬到了伦敦，在那里他还做过兼职服务员。西奥从学生时代起就对皇室充满了兴趣。1947年他在柯克伍德岔道，目睹了当时的英国国王和王后，以及伊丽莎白和玛格丽特公主，被当时人群中伊丽莎白公主的超凡魅力所吸引。几年后，他前往汉普郡的法恩伯勒的圣米迦勒修道院，瞻仰了拿破仑三世的陵墓后，决定从此励志撰写有关皇室的传记。
由于其文笔娴熟细致，文风雅致幽默，遂即逐渐成为皇室忠实的记录者，甚至被是视作为是皇室的铁杆仰慕者。他对很多皇室成员做过访问，其中包括，阿斯隆的伯爵夫人，爱丽丝公主（1981年，在其逝世后不久所发表的传记），皇太后，和玛格丽特公主，以及几个宫廷侍臣。这位短小精干的男人所醉心地聆听着所有的这些受访的者的陈述，在互动中，轻微地阿谀之词之间，而绝非是沉闷地恭维。
作者身前共著有23本书，在塞默塞特郡的弗罗姆去世，享年73岁。
Theo Aronson is the author of over twenty works of royal historical biography, published in eleven languages. Among the widely read are Grandmama of Europe, The King in Love, Napoleon and Josephine and a biography of Princess Margaret. In the course of researching and writing these books he has interviewed major and minor members of Britain’s royal family and members of the royal households, as well as various officials, servants, friends and others whose lives are in some way connected with the monarchy.
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