PHILIP MANSEL is Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research in London, UK, and the Royal Historical Society and is editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. He has authored nine books on French history, including biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne, and a history of Paris between Empires 1814-1852.
TORSTEN RIOTTE is Lecturer in History at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Educated at Cologne and Cambridge, he worked at the German Historical Institute London, and is co-editor of The Hanoverian Dimension in British history, and The Diplomats' World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy.