Fascinating Women: Marguerite Steinheil
byWhen Madame Marguerite Steinheil paid an illicit call on President Félix Faure at the Palais de l’Élysée, no one could have predicted a scandal–and…
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The Amorous Life of Edward VII
byThe sexual appetites of King Edward VII are well known: from the scandal of Nellie Cliffden, which Victoria blamed for her beloved Albert’s death,…
Portrait of an Artist: John Singer Sargent
byNo one looking at the deft and sensitive renderings of the Edwardian era’s wealthy and blue-blooded society would think that John Singer Sargent found…