My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Today HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales turned sixty, thereby surpassing the term of his great-great grandfather Edward VII as heir to the British Crown by one year (incidentally, Charles is married to the great-granddaughter of Edward’s last mistress, Alice Keppel–how’s that for coming full circle). Like Bertie, Charles has weathered scandals regarding his [...]
I recently flipped through a research book dealing with Edwardian women and was struck by a passage referencing the brief and scandalous craze for nipple piercing which swept the ladies of the aristocracy during the late 1890s. Fortuitously, someone on the Victorian mailing list I am a member of posed a question about the validity [...]
Given the lease of Marlborough House upon his marriage to Princess of Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, the house quickly became the social center of society. Just as the society formed around Prinny (George IV) was dubbed the “Carlton House Set”, the Prince of Wales’ bevy of friends and acquaintances garnered their moniker from Edward’s [...]
