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|title=Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France

|author=Stephen Clarke

|publisher=Century

|date=May 2014

|website=http://www.stephenclarkewriter.com/

|summary=A lighthearted biography of King Edward VII, who as Prince and King defied his German ancestry to become a passionate Francophile, culminating in his paving the way for the Entente cordiale with England in 1904

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Although he was Anglo-German by birth, so Stephen Clarke suggests, King Edward VII was very much a Parisian by nature. As we would expect from the author of several lighthearted books on our Gallic neighbours, including ‘1000 Years of Annoying the French’, this is not the most weighty or solemn biography of the King you will ever find, but it is certainly an entertaining, racy gallop through the life of its subject.