King Edward VII

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the 1870s MS developed a friendship with Alexandra (wife of Edward Prince of Wales ), to whom she acted as unofficial masseuse though she was by this time in her late sixties.

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...

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...