King Edward VII

It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria , King Edward VII , and United States president William McKinley . Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman 's Lead Kindly Light, it...

MB 's mother was also a keen theatre-goer whenever she could afford it, so Muriel queued for seats in the pit or gallery and saw the heart-throbs of the day perform. The children were...

Following her husband's retirement, MEB and her family spent significant time abroad, moving in high society in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, and Cannes, where they mixed with aristocrats including the Prince of Wales

DB 's article The King is Crowned, solicited by the New Yorker's Kyle Crichton , reached print in time for Queen Elizabeth II 's coronation.

DB 's father, Reginald Baliol Brett , became the second Viscount Esher after his father 's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being...

The New Yorker in the event paid $410, of which an agent claimed ten percent and Crichton claimed a third. Brett did make another thirty-five dollars when the piece was reprinted in a volume. Her...

The eighteen-year-old DB became violently ill while her father was organizing Edward VII 's coronation (scheduled for 26 June). Royal physician Sir Frederick Treves was dispatched to Orchard Lea on personal recommendation of the king...

Her stage version of Little Lord Fauntleroy opened in London on 14 May 1888 to a barrage of publicity. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (a New Thought play) also opened in London in spring 1910...

She alludes to the flattering welcome her previous collection had received. A good portion of her preface is taken up with responding to gendered criticism of her work: I have been told that I...

HC plays up the Victorian obsession with dirt regularly, often noting that she prepared meals in [her] dirt or that she went to bed too exhausted to clean up. She represents herself as...

Peter's Mother was first adapted for the stage, as a three-act comedy which reached print in 1910 and which meanwhile, in 1906, had a royal command performance at the royal estate of Sandringham in Norfolk...

FD 's second son, Albert Edward Wolston Beaumont Dixie , was born: the future King Edward VII , still Prince of Wales, stood godfather to him.

Such wanderings were an escape from the trammels of society, which FD slighted as far as she could. For her presentation at Court she refused to grow her short hair long enough to be put...

The journey was undertaken with the intention of writing about it. The book appeared with a dedication, by permission, to the Prince of Wales .

Born Scottish, with some Irish forebears, the young Conan Doyle (later SACD ) was somewhat precariously placed in the British middle class, living in comparative poverty but supported through a privileged education by richer relations...