King Edward VII

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Prince of Wales was in this year seriously ill with typhoid.

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...

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. Alice married George Keppel in 1891, but...

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. Chronologically...

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

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...