The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince

by Jane Ridley

“We resented the introduction of Jews into the social set of the Prince of Wales,” wrote Daisy Brooke, “not because we disliked them … but because they had brains and understood finance. As a class we did not like brains. As for money, our only understanding of it lay in the spending, not the making of

What a scathing indictment of the aristocracy!