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|title=Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
|author=Jane Ridley
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Several of the main facts about King Edward VII (1841-1910) are reasonably well-known. Considered oversexed by his parents, Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, he was blamed by the former for breaking the latter's heart and causing his early death with the news that he (Edward) had enjoyed himself with a lady of the night. He was notoriously unfaithful to his charming but prematurely deaf and lame wife Alexandra, hated reading books and learning but became a first-class unofficial ambassador to courts and countries abroad, and despite low expectations of others and poor health he made an excellent King for the last nine years of his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575442</amazonuk>
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''Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales'', the wonderful Jamila Gavin gives us her own take on wicked witches, enchanted forests, talking animals and heroes and heroines who triumph against adversity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848531060</amazonuk>
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