Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press.
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King Edward VII
Standard Name: Edward VII, King
Used Form: Edward Prince of Wales
Used Form: Edward Albert
Used Form: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
| Textual Production | Fay Weldon | The next year this series, Love and Inheritance, expanded to include two more titles: Long Live the King (published in April 2013) and The New Countess (published in November 2013). The first of these... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert
, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press. xvi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | Commonly referred to as Bertie, he became in due course King Edward VII
. Prince Albert purposely broke with the tradition of inviting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord President of the Council... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales
was in this year seriously ill with typhoid. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press. xvii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel
, was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons)
and William Edmonstone
at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 15-17 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Later in life especially, Trefusis liked to whisper to friends that she was really the daughter of Edward VII
, whom she and her sister called Grandpapa and Kingy Gateau as children. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 15, 62 |
| Travel | Violet Trefusis | After the Berlitz School
, Violet was given a trip to Spain for her fifteenth birthday. Then, following the King
's death on 6 May 1910, Mrs Keppel announced that the family would travel to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Mrs Keppel was a wealthy woman, both as Edward VII
's former mistress and because by 1918 her own speculations yielded more than £20,000 a year. This gave her an advantage in her goal of... |
| Textual Production | Violet Trefusis | Major holdings of VT
's papers are at the Beinecke Library
at Yale University
. This collection includes letters between her and Vita Sackville-West
from 1940 onwards, and from Edward VII
to Alice Keppel
... |
| Reception | Agnes Strickland | It was less well reviewed than their previous books. The Spectator implied, rather than saying outright, that it was a mere aggregation of feeble platitudes. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 266 |
| Leisure and Society | Flora Annie Steel | On the visit of the Prince of Wales
to India (which began in November 1875), FAS
(who was blonde, pink-cheeked, and still extremely youthful in appearance) was a great hit with the prince because of... |
| Literary Setting | Flora Annie Steel | This novel features the usual complex plot of personal relations among people of different racial backgrounds. It evokes a past when both the religious and the racial mix in India was very different, in comparing... |
| Friends, Associates | Edith Sitwell | ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened... |
Timeline
From May 1851: At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company...
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From May 1851
At the Great Exhibition, Bax and Company
exhibited their newly invented waterproof, flexible, breathable fabric called Aquascutum.
1862: By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford...
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1862
By royal command, photographer Francis Bedford
attended the Prince of Wales
on his trip to the Near East.
May 1877: Lillie Langtry, aged twenty-four, made her...
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May 1877
Lillie Langtry
, aged twenty-four, made her entrance into London society at a dinner party; she soon became a famous professional beauty.
By 24 December 1881: Lillie Langtry became the first English society...
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By 24 December 1881
Lillie Langtry
became the first English society woman to appear professionally on the stage when she played Kate Hardcastle in Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer at the Haymarket Theatre
, London.
21 April 1883: The Royal College of Music was founded in...
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21 April 1883
The Royal College of Music
was founded in London.
1889-1893: Augustus Harris rented Covent Garden opera...
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1889-1893
Augustus Harris
rented Covent Garden
opera house, where he instigated many changes. Most notably, French and German operas were performed in their original language for the first time at that venue.
18 December 1890: London's City and South London line became...
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18 December 1890
London's City and South London line became the world's first electric underground railway and the first to supply electricity to locomotives by means of a third rail.
1896: The Daimler Company of Stuttgart opened a...
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1896
The Daimler Company
of Stuttgart opened a factory in England at Coventry. It manufactured patented French and German cars.
22 January 1901: Edward VII assumed the throne on the death...
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22 January 1901
Edward VII
assumed the throne on the death of his mother, Queen Victoria
.
19 July 1904: King Edward VII laid the foundation stone...
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19 July 1904
King Edward VII
laid the foundation stone for Liverpool Cathedral, built to the designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
.
18 November 1905: King Edward VII's daughter Queen Maud became...
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18 November 1905
King Edward VII
's daughter Queen Maud
became Norway's first queen in the year that that country gained its independence from Sweden and her husband accepted election to its throne as Haakon VII
.
26 June 1909: Edward VII opened the Victoria and Albert...
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26 June 1909
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
6 May 1910: King Edward VII died, and George V assumed...
National or international item
6 May 1910
King Edward VII
died, and George V
assumed the throne; Virginia Woolf
dated a section of The Years from the old king's death.
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