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
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”
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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
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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
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Names: Arnold, Catharine, author.