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Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was an aristocrat, British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Keppel grew up at Duntreath Castle, the family seat of the Edmonstone baronets in Scotland.
Nov 24, 2020 · Her great-great grandmother Alice Keppel was famously the favorite mistress of King Edward VII. That's right, Charles and Camilla's great-great grandparents also had an illicit...
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Sep 26, 2019 · Alice Keppel, Edward’s final mistress, is without a doubt the most infamous, due to her being the Duchess of Cornwall’s great-grandmother. Keppel met the King in 1898 at the age of 29, and ...
May 20, 2021 · In the 1930s, King Edward VII’s grandson Edward VIII was on the throne, but in 1936, he gave it all up and abdicated—for his own royal mistress, Wallis Simpson. When Alice Keppel heard the news, her reaction was surprising.
May 5, 2023 · King Charles and Queen Camilla's ancestors — King Edward VII and Alice Keppel — were in a relationship for 12 years.
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Aug 22, 2021 · 22nd August 2021. Born 29 April 1868, Alice Frederica Keppel ( née Edmonstone) was a British society hostess and a long-time mistress and confidante of King Edward VII. Born in Woolwich Dockyard,...
Alice Keppel (born October 14, 1869, died November 22, 1947) was the most famous of the mistresses of King Edward VII. She was the great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Alice Keppel's grandfather, a Lieutenant-Colonel John Whittle Parsons, had been the Governor of the Ionian Islands at a time when then were British.
