Then again, Edward would have been content in any establishment in which the cuisine was so certain to be superb. Few monarchs have enjoyed food more, or eaten quite so much of it. As early as 1860, the abstemious Prince Albert had counselled his son, then just eighteen, against over-indulgence in rich dishes, which ‘an experienced and prudent liver will carefully avoid’.22 As he did to so many of his parents’ strictures, Edward turned a deaf ear.
