Known to his family and friends as "Bosie", he was a handsome and spoilt young man.
The latter's subtly ironic contempt, as he helps Albrecht disguise his identity from Giselle, says everything about Albrecht's spoilt, romantic nature – a man used to indulging his emotions without ever imagining the consequences.
The first recorded use of the word "cockney" is by William Langland in 1362, meaning a "cock's egg", an abnormality, and it crops up again in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, meaning a spoilt child or effeminate man, dated to around 1386 when Chaucer was an East Ender dwelling above the gatehouse at Aldgate.
But spoilt is spoilt nonetheless.
Curiously for a man moralising about "spoilt student emperors", in the 800 word rant preaching about what students get up to during their time at university, Mr Mount forgets to mention how he spent his own Oxford days; namely as a member of the Bullingdon Club.
Others knew a spoilt, intense and disturbed young man who once confessed that "my subconscious is angry with every dreary young woman I meet, if she doesn't fall in love with me: and my consciousness is furious with her if she does".
He's an irritating spoilt kid in a flabby, grown man's body.
This was a man behaving like a spoilt three-year-old, concerned only with getting what would further his own ambitions.
That he never tired of learning is displayed in not only his meticulous research but how, in a most un-American way, he began to embrace defeat in Mudville as the Boston Red Sox crashed year after year, having been so spoilt with victory as a young man in New York.
These are probably the most spoilt pigs in the world.
