Edward & Alexandra – elegance and excess

Britain’s age of excess started as stuffy Queen Victoria died in 1901 and her pleasure-loving son, ‘Dirty Bertie’, King Edward V11 took over as monarch for nine years along with his style-icon Queen Alexandra.  An exhibition devoted to The Edwardians: Age of Elegance will be on display in Buckingham Palace, showing paintings, sculpture, jewellery, furniture, books, photographs and ceramics.  Born 9 November 1841 10.48am London, playboy Edward was not kn