Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
PART ONE 1804–46
1 BOYHOOD
2 A YOUNG MAN OF HIGH FASHION
3 A CONTINENTAL HOLIDAY
4 MENTAL BREAKDOWN
5 TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES
6 ‘THE JEW D’ESPRIT’
7 THE CANDIDATE
8 AFFAIRS
9 THE REFORMING TORY
10 DEBTS AND DUNS
11 THE MEMBER FOR MAIDSTONE
12 ‘MOST BRILLIANT AND TRIUMPHANT SPEECHES’
13 ‘A PRETTY LITTLE WOMAN, A FLIRT AND A RATTLE’
14 A TROUBLED COURTSHIP
15 A HAPPY MARRIAGE
16 THE BRILLIANT ORATOR
17 YOUNG ENGLAND
18 CONINGSBY AND SYBIL
19 DAMNING ATTACKS
20 TANCRED
PART TWO 1846–81
21 THE JOCKEY AND THE JEW
22 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
23 THE CHANCELLOR
24 MARITAL DIFFICULTIES
25 BALLS AND BANQUETS
26 VISITS AND VISITORS
27 FÊTES AND FOLLIES
28 DISTINGUISHED PERSONS AND PRIVATE SECRETARIES
29 THE ‘POTENT WIZARD’
30 A GUEST AT BALMORAL AND OSBORNE
31 MINISTER IN ATTENDANCE
32 THE WIDOWER
33 FEMALE FRIENDS
34 PRIME MINISTER AGAIN
35 TROUBLES AT COURT
36 EARL OF BEACONSFIELD AND VISCOUNT HUGHENDEN OF HUGHENDEN
37 BERLIN
38 THE ‘GUARDIAN ANGEL’
39 THE LAST ACT
40 ‘A WISE AND WORLDLY MAN’
REFERENCES
SOURCES
INDEX
Acknowledgements
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