Disraeli: the Victorian Dandy who became prime minister

I: 1804-46

Boyhood

A young man of high fashion

A continental holiday

Mental breakdown

Travels and adventures

'The Jew d'Esprit' 59

The candidate

Affairs

The reforming Tory

Debts and duns

The member for Maidstone

'Most brilliant and triumphant speeches'

'A pretty little woman, a flirt and a rattle'

A troubled courtship

A happy marriage

The brilliant orator

Young England

Coningsby and Sybil

Damning attacks

Tancred

II: 1846-81

The jockey and the Jew

The country gentleman

The chancellor

Marital difficulties

Balls and banquets

Visits and visitors

Fêtes and follies

Distinguished persons and private secretaries

The 'potent wizard'

A guest at Balmoral and Osborne

Minister in attendance

The widower

Female friends

Prime minister again

Troubles at court

Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden

Berlin

The 'guardian angel'

The last act

'A wise and worldly man'.