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Anton Du Beke talks to Kate Bliss

An Evening with the King of Ballroom

Hay Festival 2025, 

Spend an evening with Strictly Come Dancing royalty Anton Du Beke as he introduces his new novel, Monte Carlo by Moonlight.

Anton Du Beke is one of this generation’s all-round entertainers. In 2018, he realised his boyhood ambition and published the first in a series of novels set in the 1930s world of the exclusive Mayfair hotel, The Buckingham. Nine bestselling books later, and in the sequel to The Royal Show, the Forsyth family arrive in 1960s Monte Carlo, a world of glitz, glamour, scandal and betrayal…