The Twists and Turns of Love

Gambling losses and gains in the 1800s ran into astronomic figures among the Bucks in the London Clubs. Charles James Fox, a compulsive gambler and Politian, would play for twenty-four hours at a sitting, losing five hundred pounds an hour. To achieve more modern values we should multiply the sum by approximately twenty. In this story Sir Roderick would have won over one hundred thousand pounds. The Royal Drawing Rooms that Queen Charlotte held every Thursday were altered to Evening Courts by King Edward VII. I was presented at one in 1925 and one in 1928 after my marriage. In 1939 after the outbreak of War, both Drawing Rooms and Levées were discontinued.