Mrs Keppel
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| Author | : Tom Quinn |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2016-09-20 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1785901532 |
For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else mattered - especially when it came to her infamous affair with King Edward VII. As the King's favourite mistress up until his death in 1910, Alice held significant influence at court and over Edward himself. But it wasn't just Edward she courted: throughout her life, Alice enthusiastically embarked on affairs with bankers, MPs, peers - anybody who could elevate her standing and pay the right price. She was a shrewd courtesan, and her charisma and voracity ensured her both power and money, combined as they were with an aptitude for manipulation. Drawing on a range of sources, including salacious first-hand eyewitness accounts, bestselling author Tom Quinn paints an extraordinary picture of the Edwardian aristocracy, and traces the lives of royal mistresses down to Alice's great-granddaughter, the current Duchess of Cornwall. Both intriguing and astonishing, this is an unadulterated glimpse into a hidden world of scandal, decadence and debauchery.
| Author | : Diana Souhami |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2014-10-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1466883502 |
Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.
| Author | : Raymond Lamont-Brown |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2011-10-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0752473948 |
A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of a prominent member of the Stock exchange, defied social expectations by not marrying, instead becoming involved in hospital charity work. Her twelve-year relationship with the king was much less in the public eye, but was just as important.
| Author | : Lucinda Riley |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2017-04-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1476759944 |
Star D'Apliese is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father - the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world.
| Author | : Dennis Friedman |
| Publisher | : Peter Owen Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780720612448 |
Examining the roles played by the mistress and the concubine, this study also sheds light on commercial sex, the ready availability of which possibly protected the sanctity of marriage in the years preceding today's less holy alliances. The book shows how sex addiction cast its shadow over the 20th century--from the accession of King Edward VII in 1901 to his and Mrs. Alice Keppel's great, great grandchildren and to Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles today.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 798 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : San Francisco (Calif.) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Tom Quinn |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2015-03-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1849548935 |
"William Tallon was a creature of extremes: though intensely loyal, he was also a dangerous risk-taker; though charming, he could also be vicious; though considerate and amusing, he could be ruthless and predatory. For much of his life he was driven by two demons: a powerful sex drive and an intense, almost pathological love for the Queen Mother..." From humble beginnings as a shopkeeper's son in Coventry to 'Page of the Backstairs' at Clarence House, William Tallon, or 'Backstairs Billy' as he came to be known, entered royal service at the age of fifteen. Over the next fifty years, he became one of the most notorious and flamboyant characters ever to have graced the royal household - the one servant the Queen Mother just could not do without. While others came and went, he remained by her side, becoming one of her most trusted friends and confidants. The fascinating life story of the man who spent more than half a century working for one of the world's most elusive institutions, Backstairs Billy provides a rare glimpse of what the royals really get up to behind closed doors...
| Author | : Theo Aronson |
| Publisher | : Lume Books |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2020-11-12 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781839012594 |
An all-embracing account of the loves of that royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King. Spanning three decades, the story is set in the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society.
| Author | : Sonia Keppel |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1958 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
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| Author | : Robert D. Keppel |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 0671001302 |
Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions, and depraved motives of serial killers. From the Lonely Hearts Killer who hunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Gacy, these are the cases--horrifying, graphic and unforgettable--that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. Foreword by Ann Rule.
