Andrew Roberts

Historian obsessed with Napoleon spills the beans on Bonaparte's sex life and reveals the truth about 'not tonight, Josephine'

When I tell Professor Andrew Roberts — historian, BBC presenter and best friend of David Cameron — that we’ve met before he looks aghast. “Christ, we didn’t sleep together, did we?” A hand leaps to his forehead. “Did I make some drunken pass at you in a darkened room at some nightclub?” I assure him it was just a handshake at the launch of one of his books (he’s written 12).

“Thank Christ. I was a totally different person back then, that’s the thing.” He takes a slurp of beer. It’s midday and we’re at the Belgraves Hotel, a swanky number with a branch in Brooklyn, just aound the corner from his Knightsbridge home (“the house is being refurbished so we’re renting a little place”).…Read the full article on the Evening Standard