King Edward VII

The ODNB notes that the early stories in particular are sharply critical of official incompetence and aristocratic privilege.A Scandal in Bohemia hints at the well-concealed love-life of the Prince of Wales . Characters of...

LDG was visited by a number of Europeans who were travelling through Egypt. Shortly before her death the Prince and Princess of Wales visited her on the Urania. She exacted a promise from the...

PG 's mother, Elsie (Annetts) Price , and her two widowed grandmothers brought her up. Elsie, who had worked as servant to one of Edward VII 's mistresses, was familiar with wealth, though not with...

On her father's return to Dublin, MG made her début in society on 9 April 1885 at Dublin Castle (the Irish centre of British high society as well as British power). This purely social occasion...

After coming into her inheritance, MG put a great deal of effort into campaigning in England and beyond for the cause of Irish Home Rule. She invested great energy in political activism throughout her life...

The introduction to Miscellanies volume 15 refers to the interest of the then Prince of Wales in the portion we were allowed to print of the amusing diary of Lady Harcourt, which we should have...

JOH travelled extensively, often in her role as a now-famous author. She had first revisited the United States, after leaving it as a baby, in May 1886. She saw much of England and...

JOH 's non-fiction included travel essays in epistolary form written while in Delhi for the durbar for Edward VII in early 1903. These were originally published in England in the Daily Graphic and in the...

FK was well respected by the family's social circle, and attended several notable events with her husband. Both Charles and Fanny Kingsley were invited to the wedding on 10 March 1863 of Edward, Prince of Wales

Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...

A few months after publishing The Prince and the Prayer (an account of the Prince of Wales 's divinely-ordered escape from typhoid), CM followed it with The Prince and the Praise, through the same...

CM and her niece L. E. (Lucy) O'Rorke collaborated over the publication of The Prince 's Return through J. Nisbet and Co. Lucy identified herself by her initials, CM as the Author of The Prince...

The book was inspired by the typhoid fever which Albert Edward, Prince of Wales , suffered in December 1871. A service was held for him on the 14th, the anniversary of the death of his...

GM received several honours for his literary achievements, including the Order of Merit from Edward VII and the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature . In 1892 he succeeded Tennyson as president of...

AM 's sister Elizabeth , later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874...