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The Blemishes Of King Edward's Private Life

Harold Acton THE KING IN LOVE: EDWARD VII'S MISTRESSES by Theo Aronson John Murray, £13.95, pp. 301 W hen I was an undergraduate mem- ber of the Oxford University Railway Club,......

• Into The Tourist Trap

Antony Lambton SUMMER'S LEASE by John Mortimer Viking, E11.95, pp. 289 I have always admired Mr John Mortim- er's portrait of his father and was sorry to be away last year when......