{"product_id":"edward-the-rake-paperback","title":"Edward the Rake - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in the supreme moral rigour of Queen Victoria's court, young Bertie was always going to find it hard to live up to his parents' expectation. He was far from a brilliant student, and though charming, his carnal inclinations were widely rumoured to have sped up his Father's decline, with Prince Albert dying a mere two weeks after Bertie spent three nights with an actress who had been smuggled into his military camp. He waited almost sixty years to ascend the throne but was nonetheless able to reconfigure the public image of the monarch, taking the splendour beyond the palace gates and living lavishly in wider society, rapidly becoming one of the most popular monarchs in the history of the crown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1975, these chapters in the life of Edward the Rake are dealt with frankly and light-heartedly. It is the story of a man who enjoyed himself and his indelicate advantages to the full, it is a penetrating and yet not unsympathetic portrait of the monarch and of the discreetly swinging social world that he created around him.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe has worked on various newspapers, including the\u003ci\u003e Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Sunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ewhere for a time he wrote the \u003ci\u003eAtticus\u003c\/i\u003e column. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the success of his \u003ci\u003eLife of Ian Fleming\u003c\/i\u003e, he decamped with wife and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned to England to research and write the life and times of the Kray brothers in \u003ci\u003eThe Profession of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e and has since written many more successful works of both fiction and non-fiction. Biographies remain his specialty with accomplished studies of the Sitwells, Winston Churchill and the Royal Family following his earlier successes.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731340136511,"sku":"9781448208036","price":27.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/436daab5210529b1ce014fd5c5bc51ac.webp?v=1765128542","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/edward-the-rake-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}