Family Tree of Edward VII xii
Family Tree of Alexandra xiv
Introduction: The Eighty-Nine Steps xvii
Part One Youth
Chapter 1 Victoria and Albert 1841
3(15)
Chapter 2 "Our Poor Strange Boy" 1841--56
18(24)
Chapter 3 "Neither Fish nor Flesh" 1856--60
42(18)
Chapter 4 Bertie's Fall 1861
60(17)
Chapter 5 Marriage 1861--63
77(17)
Chapter 6 "Totally Totally Unfit ... for Ever Becoming King" 1863-65
94(20)
Chapter 7 Alix's Knee 1865--67
114(21)
Chapter 8 Marlborough House and Harriett Mordaunt 1868--70
135(28)
Chapter 9 Annus Horribilis 1870--71
163(28)
Part Two Expanding Middle
Chapter 10 Resurrection? 1871--75
191(21)
Chapter 11 India 1875--76
212(11)
Chapter 12 The Aylesford Scandal 1876
223(21)
Chapter 13 Lillie Langtry 1877--78
244(16)
Chapter 14 Prince Hal 1878--81
260(22)
Chapter 15 Prince of Pleasure 1881--87
282(19)
Chapter 16 William 1887--89
301(19)
Chapter 17 Scandal 1889--90
320(20)
Chapter 18 Nemesis 1890--92
340(21)
Chapter 19 Daisy Warwick 1892--96
361(28)
Chapter 20 "We Are All in God's Hands" 1897--1901
389(32)
Part Three King
Chapter 21 King Edward the Caresser 1901--2
421(19)
Chapter 22 "Edward the Confessor Number Two" 1902
440(15)
Chapter 23 King Edward the Peacemaker 1903--5
455(23)
Chapter 24 Uncle of Europe 1905--7
478(26)
Chapter 25 King Canute 1908--9
504(22)
Chapter 26 King of Trumps 1909--10
526(17)
Chapter 27 The People's King: March-May 1910
543(28)
Conclusion 571(10)
Afterword: Bertie and the Biographers 581(22)
Acknowledgments 603(4)
Notes 607(92)
Index 699