Table of Contents
Map of Bertie's Paris vi
Preface xi
Chapter 1 1855: Amour at First Sight 1
Chapter 2 The Royal Cherry Is Unroyally Popped 38
Chapter 3 Bertie and the 'Palace Dames' 54
Chapter 4 An Anglo-Danish Wedding and a French Marriage 74
Chapter 5 Sex and the City of Light 95
Chapter 6 Painting the Town Rouge 125
Chapter 7 If You Can't Be with the One You Love… 158
Chapter 8 Savaged by the Press 180
Chapter 9 The French Try to be English 202
Chapter 10 Bertie Makes an Exhibition of Himself… Again 217
Chapter 11 The French Make Work for Idle Hands 238
Chapter 12 We All Like to Be Beside the Seaside 267
Chapter 13 Reaching an Anglo-French Entente 287
Chapter 14 Don't Mention the War 318
Chapter 15 C'est la Fin 335
Afterword: Life After Bertie 361
Select Bibliography 364
Picture permissions 367
Index 368
