3. “GAY PAREE AND LONDON LOWLIFE”

  1.     Giles St. Aubyn, Edward VII: Prince and King (London: Collins, 1979), p. 83.

  2.     Anita Leslie, Edwardians in Love (London: Hutchison, 1972), p. 281.

  3.     Denis Judd, Edward VII: A Pictorial Biography (London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975), p. 30.

  4.     Ibid.

  5.     Leslie, op. cit., p. 282.

  6.     Judd, op. cit., p. 30.

  7.     Leslie, op. cit., p. 282.

  8.     Ernest Dudley, The Gilded Lily (London: Odhams Press, 1958), p. 43.

  9.     Cowles, Virginia, Gay Monarch: The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII (London: Harper, 1956), p. 214.

  10.   Dudley, op. cit., p. 43.

  11.   Ibid.

  12.   John Pearson, Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975), p. 50.

  13.   Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (London: Allen Lane, 1976), p. 99.

  14.   Pearson, op. cit., p. 52.

  15.   Ibid.

  16.   Ibid.

  17.   Ibid.

  18.   Ibid., pp. 59–60.

  19.   Diana Souhami, Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), p. 34.

  20.   Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (London: Vintage, 2003), p. 31.

  21.   Pearson, op. cit., p. 44.

  22.   Ibid.

  23.   Allen Andrews, The Follies of King Edward VII (London: Lexington, 1975), p. 98.

  24.   Ibid., p. 92.

  25.   Ibid., p. 98.

  26.   Ibid., p. 101.

  27.   Joanna Richardson, The Courtesans (New Jersey: Castle Books, 2004), p. 3.

  28.   Katie Hickman, Courtesans (London: Harper Perennial, 2003), p. 234.

  29.   Ibid., p. 278.

  30.   James Brough, The Prince and the Lily (London: Coronet, 1975), p. 146.

  31.   Hickman, op. cit., p. 281.

  32.   Ibid., p. 303.

  33.   Ridley, op. cit., p. 166.

  34.   Richardson, op. cit., pp. 20–21.

  35.   Ibid., p. 23.

  36.   Leslie, op. cit., p. 70.

  37.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson_de_Talleyrand-Périgord.

  38.   Leslie, op. cit., p. 71.

  39.   Ibid., p. 72.

  40.   Ibid.

  41.   Pearson, op. cit., p. 49.

  42.   Ibid.

  43.   Giles St. Aubyn, Edward VII: Prince and King, p. 156.

  44.   Ibid.

  45.   Ibid.

  46.   Ibid.

  47.   Ibid., p. 157.

  48.   Ibid.

  49.   Ibid.

  50.   Ibid., p. 158.

  51.   Ibid., p. 159.