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Historical Notes: A perfect and popular royal mistress
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"WHERE'S ALICE?" the crowds would shout if Albert Edward, Prince
of Wales, later King Edward VII, ap-peared in London's theatreland
without the Hon Mrs George Keppel in his entourage. A leader of the
fashionable set and one of the best-known society hostesses of the
Edwardian era, Alice Keppel entertained most of the influential
members of the political elite and the diplomatic and civil service
of her day. She was one of the readily recognised royal mistresses
of any age. Keppel unashamedly ...
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