King Edward VII

The game in question occurred at Wilson's home in September 1890. The Prince of Wales had been in attendance, and was called to testify against EN 's father. The guilty verdict is often attributed to...

FN became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit, from King Edward VII ; Queen Victoria had already awarded her the Royal Red Cross.

For epigraph she chose a quotation from her friend Sidney Herbert , calling for better communication between different social ranks. Employing Spenser ian stanzas (CN listed The Faerie Queene among her favourite poems), the...

CO was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales .

She sent her first sonnets to magazines under the name of C. Oman, and the rejection slips came in addressed to her father. There was not much Women's Lib. in my early days.

ER turned from prose to poetry to issue, again as the author of Whitefriars, an Epithalamium in honour of the marriage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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. When the book reached the Prince of Wales in...

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...

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...

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...