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by Catharine Arnold


  Jones, Arthur

  Keppel, Alice Frederica Edmonstone

  Bertie’s death and

  as Bertie’s mistress

  birth/background of

  children’s births

  diplomatic support role of

  later years of

  marriage of

  personality/traits of

  Keppel, Arnold Joost van, 1st Earl of Albemarle

  Keppel, George

  Keppel, Sonia

  Keppel, Violet

  Kerr, Charles

  Keyser, Agnes

  as Bertie’s mistress

  personality/traits of

  Keyser, Charles

  Keyser, Fanny

  Keyser, Margaret

  King Edward’s Hospital for Officers, London

  Kingsley, Charles

  Kingsley, Henry

  King’s Theatre, Edinburgh

  Knatchbull, Mrs.

  Knollys, Sir Francis

  Knollys, Sir William

  L’Abbesse de Jouarre (racehorse)

  Labouchere, Henry “Labby”

  Lady River (Paget)

  Laking, Sir Francis

  Lambton, George

  Lamont-Brown, Raymond

  Langtry, Edward “Ned”

  death of

  marriage of

  social skills of

  wife’s affairs and

  Langtry, Emilie Charlotte “Lillie” (née Le Breton)

  as actress

  as artist model

  as Bertie’s mistress

  birth/background of

  court presentation of

  cultural ascension of

  daughter’s birth

  death of

  illness of

  later life of

  Louis of Battenberg’s relationship with

  marriage of

  personality/traits of

  Prince Louis’s relationship with

  “The Red House” built for

  Warwick’s relationship with

  Langtry, Jeanne-Marie

  Lansdowne, Lord

  Larkin, Sophie

  Laycock, Angela (née Dudley-Ward)

  Laycock, Joe

  Le Breton, Clement Corbet

  Le Breton, Emilie Corbet

  Le Breton, Francis Corbet

  Le Breton, Maurice Corbet

  Le Breton, Raoul (“The Channel Islands Pirate”)

  Le Breton, Reggie Corbet

  Lillie’s relationship with

  Le Breton, Trevor Corbet

  Le Breton, William Corbet, Dean of Jersey

  womanizing by

  Le Breton, William Inglis Corbet

  Leighton, Lord

  Leopold, King of Belgium

  Leopold, Royal Prince

  Langtry’s relationship with

  marriage of

  Lepine, Monsieur (police officer)

  Leslie, Anita

  Leslie, Leonie (née Jerome)

  Leslie, Sir John

  Levett, Berkeley

  Lewis, George

  Beresford affair and

  Life’s Ebb and Flow (Warwick)

  Lind, Jenny

  Lindsay, James, Earl of Crawford

  Londesborough, Earl of

  London Fire Brigade

  London in the Sixties (Shaw)

  London Volunteer Brigade

  Longley, Arthur

  Lonsdale, Lady

  Louise, Princess (Bertie’s daughter)

  Louise, Princess of Hesse-Cassel

  Louis, Prince of Battenberg

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Lovat, Lord

  Lunt, Alfred

  Lycett Green, Edward

  Lycett Green, Ethel

  Lytton, Robert Bulwer

  Macclesfield, Lady

  Magnus, Sir Philip

  Malmsbury, Lord

  Manchester, Louisa, Duchess of

  Manor House Asylum, London

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  Marienbad, Czech Republic

  Marie, Princess of Altenburg

  Marie, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

  Marie, Princess of the Netherlands

  Marjoribanks, Dudley Coutts, 1st Baron Tweedmouth

  Mark, Henry

  Marlborough, Duke of

  Aylesford scandal and

  Marlborough, Frances, Duchess of

  Aylesford scandal and

  Marlborough House

  Marlborough House set

  public exposure of

  “small evenings” among

  Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of

  Married Women’s Property Act (1882)

  Mary, Queen of the United Kingdom

  Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland

  Maud, Princess (Bertie’s daughter)

  Maynard, Blanche

  Maynard, Blanchie

  Maynard, Charles

  Maynard, Frances. See Warwick, Frances Greville “Daisy,” Countess of

  Maynard, Henry, 3rd Viscount Maynard

  Mayoress, Lady

  May, Princess of Teck

  Mensdorff Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Count Albert von

  Meyer, Baroness Olga de

  Miles, Frank

  Millais, John Everett

  Le Misanthrope (Moliére)

  Moliére

  Montagu, Mr. (bank manager)

  Montagu, Oliver

  Moore, Mr. (politician)

  Mordaunt, Lady Harriet (née Moncreiffe)

  Mordaunt, Sir Charles

  Mordaunt, Violet Caroline

  Morning Post

  Morris, William

  Mouchy, Duchesse de

  Moulin Rouge, Paris

  Moulton, Mrs. Charles

  Munby, Arthur

  Murray, Greville

  Napoleon III, Louis, Emperor of France

  National Hunt Steeplechase

  The New York Times

  Nicolle, Madame (dressmaker)

  Norfolk, Duke of

  Northcote, Stafford Henry, Lord Iddsleigh

  Order of the Crown of India

  Order of the Garter

  Orpheus in the Underworld (opera)

  Ours (play)

  Paget, Florence

  Paget, Lady Lucy

  Paget, Minnie Stevens

  Paget, Mrs. Augustus

  Pall Mall Gazette

  Palmerston, Lord

  Paris, France

  Parker Bowles, Camilla

  Parliament, United Kingdom

  Churchill, Randolph, in

  Warwick’s run for

  Parry, John Humffreys

  Partridge, Constable

  Pater, Walter

  Pearl, Cora “La Barucca” (formerly Eliza Crouch)

  Peat, Mathilde

  Pedro V, King of Portugal

  Penzance, Lord

  Pepys, Samuel

  Peter Pry journal

  Phèdre (Racine)

  photography, emergence of

  Pierrette (racehorse)

  Pigeon, Henry

  Pinero, Arthur

  Ponsonby, Sir Edward

  Ponsonby, Sir Frederick

  Ponsonby, Sir Henry

  Pope, Alexander

  Porch, Montagu Phippen

  Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of

  Poynter, Sir Edward

  Les Précieuses ridicules (Moliére)

  Price, Elizabeth

  Price, Jane

  Prince of Wales Theatre, Birmingham

  Princes’ Theatre, Manchester

  Professional Beauties (art models)

  Prussia

  Crown Prince of

  Vicky, Princess Royal, Crown Princess of

  Puck magazine

  Punch magazine

  The Queen’s Messenger (gossip journal)

  Rachel (French actress)

  Racine (writer)

  Randolph Hotel, Oxford

  Ranelagh, Lord

  Red Gauntlet (yac
ht)

  “The Red House,” Bournemouth

  Redskin (horse)

  Réjane (actress)

  Renan, Henry

  Review of Reviews

  Reynold’s Newspaper

  Ribblesdale, Lord

  Ridley, Jane

  Ritz, César

  Robert III, King of Scotland

  Robertson, Madge

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)

  Rosebery, Lord

  Rose, Hugh, Lord Strathnairn

  Rosenberg, Adolphus

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

  Rosslyn, Angela

  Rosslyn, Harry

  Rosslyn, Robert Francis St. Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of

  Rothschild, Lord Ferdinand “Ferdy” de

  Rothschild, Nathaniel

  Rotten Row, Hyde Park, London

  Royal Academy, London

  Royal Albert Hall, London

  Royal Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool

  Royal Buckhounds

  Royal General Theatrical Fund

  Royal Horse Guards

  Royal Marine Light Infantry

  Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

  Royal Protection Squad

  Royal Regatta, Isle of Wight

  the Royals (10th Royal Hussars)

  Royal Yacht Squadron

  Rudolph, Crown Prince of Austria

  Ruskin, John

  Russell, Sir Charles

  Sackville-West, Vita

  Sagan, Hélie de

  Sagan, Jeanne Seillière, Princesse de

  Sagan, Prince de

  St. Albans, Duke of

  St. Clair-Erskine, Robert Francis, 4th Earl of Rosslyn

  St. George’s Chapel, Windsor

  St. Helier, Lady, literary salon of

  St. Leger Race

  St. Olave’s Church, Southwark

  Salisbury, Lord

  Sandwich, Lord

  Sassoon, Arthur

  Sassoon, Reuben

  “Saturday to Monday” getaways

  Saumerez, Lady

  Schneider, Hortense

  School for Scandal (play)

  Scots Guards

  Sebright, Lady Georgina

  Seillière, Jeanne, Princesse de Sagan

  Seymour, Francis

  Shakespeare, William

  Shaw, Donald

  Shaw, Eyre

  She Stoops to Conquer (play)

  Siddons, Sarah

  Sipido, Jean-Baptiste

  Smith, Seth

  socialism

  Somerset, Arthur

  Somerset, Lady

  Somerset, Lord Edward

  Soveral, Marques de

  Spencer, Guy Bertrand

  Sporting Times “Pink ‘Un”

  Star journal

  Stevens, Minnie

  Stockmar, Baron

  Stoeckl, Baroness de

  Stratton, Mrs. (dressmaker)

  Stuart-Wortley, Edward

  Sturt, Humphrey, 2nd Baron Alington

  Sturt, Lady Feodorovna “Feo”

  Suffield, Lord Charles Harbord, 5th Baron

  Sutherland, Duke of

  Sutherland, Millie

  Swinburne, Algernon

  Sykes, Christopher

  Sylva, Carmen (Elisabeth of Wied)

  Symonds, John Addington

  syphilis

  Talleyrand-Périgord family

  Taylor, Tom

  tea time

  affairs revolving around

  at country house weekends

  Telegraph newspaper

  Tempest, Lady Susan Vane

  Tennyson, Alfred Lord

  Terry, Ellen

  Thellusson, Lord, 5th Baron Rendlesham

  Thunderer, HMS

  Tilley, Vesta, Lady de Frece

  The Times of London

  Langtry acting reviews by

  Tranby Croft trial coverage by

  Tomahawk journal

  Torby, Sophia, Countess of

  Torrington, Lord

  Town Talk (gossip journal)

  Tranby Croft scandal

  trial surrounding

  Treves, Sir Frederick

  Trinity College, Cambridge

  Truth magazine

  Tuke, Thomas Harrington

  Twickenham Town Hall

  Tyburn gallows, London

  typhoid

  Undaunted, HMS

  The Unequal Match (Taylor)

  the Uranians (homosexual coterie)

  Vanity Fair

  Vaudeville Theatre, London

  Vicky, Princess Royal, Crown Princess of Prussia

  Bertie’s marriage and

  Victoria and Albert (royal yacht)

  Victoria, Princess (Bertie’s daughter)

  Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (Bertie’s mother)

  abdication of

  Albert’s death and

  Aylesford scandal and

  Bertie’s marriage and

  Bertie’s relationship with

  Bertie’s womanizing and

  death of

  Golden Jubilee of

  Langtry, Lillie, and

  personality traits of

  Tranby Croft scandal and

  Warwick, Daisy, and

  La Vie Parisienne (opera)

  Villa Eugénie, France

  Villemer, Marquis de

  Vincent, Sir Edgar, Viscount D’Abernon

  Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie

  Walters, Catherine “Skittles”

  Warwick Castle

  Warwick, Fourth Earl of

  Warwick, Frances Greville “Daisy,” Countess of (formerly Frances Maynard and Daisy Brooke)

  as Beresford’s mistress

  at Bertie’s coronation

  as Bertie’s mistress

  birth/background of

  children’s births

  country weekends hosted by

  court presentation of

  as Gordon-Cumming’s mistress

  Langtry’s relationship with

  later life of

  as Laycock’s mistress

  marriage of

  memoirs of

  Parliamentary run by

  personality/traits of

  as philanthropist

  Tranby Croft leak and

  Warwick, Francis Greville “Brookie,” Fifth Earl of (formerly Lord Brooke)

  accession of

  marriage of

  Warwick, Marjorie

  Warwick, Maynard

  Warwick, Mercy

  The Water-Babies (Kingsley)

  Watts, Sir Fredrick

  “A Welcome” (Tennyson)

  Wells, H. G.

  Westminster, Duchess of

  Wharncliffe, Countess

  Wharncliffe, Earl of

  Whatman, Harriet

  The Wheel of Fortune (Burne-Jones)

  Whistler, James McNeill

  Whitehall Review

  Wilde, Oscar

  William III, King of England

  William II, Kaiser, Emperor of Germany

  Williams, Owen

  William the Conqueror

  Willis, Mr. (lawyer)

  Wilson, Arthur

  Wilson, Lady Sarah (née Spencer-Churchill)

  Wilson, Mrs. Arthur

  Wilson, Stanley

  Wilton, Lady

  Windsor Castle

  Alix’s arrival to

  Witch of the Air (racehorse)

  womanizing, Bertie’s. See also adultery; country house weekends; Edward VII, “Bertie,” King of the United Kingdom

  via brothels/prostitutes

  during country house weekends

  via courtesans

  first official mistress and

  via home visits

  types of women associated with

  women

  legal rights of

  societal restrictions on

  Wontner, St. John

  Woodville, Elizabeth

  Woolf, Virginia

  The World m
agazine

  Worth, Jean

  Wren, Alfred

  Wren, Sir Christopher

  Yardley, William

  Young, Sir Allen “Alleno”

  ALSO BY CATHARINE ARNOLD

  The Sexual History of London

  Necropolis: London and Its Dead

  Bedlam: London and Its Mad

  Underworld: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

  Globe: Life in Shakespeare’s London

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  CATHARINE ARNOLD read English at Girton College, Cambridge, and holds a further degree in psychology. A journalist, academic, and popular historian, she is the author of The Sexual History of London, Necropolis: London and Its Dead, and Bedlam: London and Its Mad, among others. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  DEDICATION

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

  1.  A YOUTHFUL INDISCRETION

  2.  A ROYAL WEDDING

  3.  “GAY PAREE AND LONDON LOWLIFE”

  4.  MORDAUNT VS. MORDAUNT

  5.  JENNIE CHURCHILL, THE DOLLAR PRINCESS

  6.  THE AYLESFORD SCANDAL

  7.  THE JERSEY TOMBOY

  8.  TAKING LONDON BY STORM

  9.  THE REAL PRINCE CHARMING

  10.  ROYAL MISTRESS

  11.  THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

  12.  JENNIE AND RANDOLPH

  13.  MY DARLING DAISY

  14.  THE HEART HAS ITS REASONS

  15.  SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

  16.  THE UNFORGIVABLE SIN

  17.  THE TRANBY CROFT TRIAL

  18.  THE SOCIALITE SOCIALIST

  19.  CAPTAIN LAYCOCK OF THE BLUES

  20.  THE LAST MISTRESS: ALICE KEPPEL

  21.  GOLDEN YEARS

  22.  FAMOUS LAST WORDS

  PHOTOGRAPHS

  AFTERTHOUGHTS

  NOTES

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  INDEX

  ALSO BY CATHARINE ARNOLD

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COPYRIGHT

  EDWARD VII. Copyright © 2017 by Catharine Arnold. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Excerpts from The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of Vita Sackville-West. Copyright © 1963 by The Estate of Vita Sackville-West.

  Cover illustrations: Edward VII © Bridgeman Images; painting of Mrs. Langtry © Jersey Heritage Trust. UK / Bridgeman Images

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Arnold, Catharine, author.

 

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