J. Castell Hopkins’s biography of King Edward VII surveys the life and reign of Queen Victoria’s eldest son, who came to the throne in 1901 after the longest wait in British royal history. Covering Edward’s early years, his decades as Prince of Wales, and his brief but socially transformative reign, Hopkins also provides a sketch of the future George V at the book’s close.
Written during the Edwardian era itself, the biography captures something of the contemporary mood surrounding the king — his love of ceremony, diplomacy, and society, and his role in reshaping the British monarchy’s public image. Download the free EPUB for a contemporaneous life of Britain’s Edwardian king.