Edward Legge

Edward Legge was a British author best known for historical and biographical works published in the years before and after the First World War. The books confirmed during this search include The Empress Eugénie, 1870–1910, The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire (1911), The Empress Eugénie and Her Son (1916), King Edward in His True Colours, and King George and the Royal Family.

His writing shows a strong interest in European courts and public figures, especially the world around Napoleon III, Empress Eugénie, and the British monarchy. He also contributed notes to The Days That Are No More; Some Reminiscences by Princess Pauline Metternich, which fits with the same fascination for memory, society, and high politics.

Reliable basic bibliographic evidence was easy to confirm, but fuller personal details about his life were limited in the sources reviewed here. Because of that, it is safest to remember him primarily through his books: lively, personality-driven works of popular history centered on monarchs, empires, and the social world around them.