Contents

About the Book

About the Author

Also by Stephen Clarke

Title Page

Dedication

Map of Bertie’s Paris

Preface

Chapter 1: 1855: Amour at First Sight

Chapter 2: The Royal Cherry Is Unroyally Popped

Chapter 3: Bertie and the ‘Palace Dames’

Chapter 4: An Anglo-Danish Wedding and a French Marriage

Chapter 5: Sex and the City of Light

Chapter 6: Painting the Town Rouge

Chapter 7: If You Can’t Be with the One You Love . . .

Chapter 8: Savaged by the Press

Chapter 9: The French Try to be English

Chapter 10: Bertie Makes an Exhibition of Himself . . . Again

Chapter 11: The French Make Work for Idle Hands

Chapter 12: We All Like to Be Beside the Seaside

Chapter 13: Reaching an Anglo-French Entente

Chapter 14: Don’t Mention the War

Chapter 15: C’est la Fin

Afterword: Life After Bertie

Select Bibliography

Picture Section

Picture permissions

Index

Copyright