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She was known for her relationships with royal figures and noblemen, including the future King Edward VII, Lord Shrewsbury, and Prince Louis of Battenberg.
May 3, 2019 · The birth was a Victorian mystery, but Lillie herself related how Edward and his young nephew, Prince Louis of Battenberg, settled the matter with a flip of the coin, and Edward lost. Prince Louis later became First Lord of the Admiralty, and changed his name to Mountbatten.
Lillie Langtry was the mistress of the future King Edward VII (while he was Prince of Wales) from 1877-1880. A married socialite at the time, she later embarked on a career in the theatre, with the encouragement and support of the Prince.
They had four children: Alice, Louise, George, and Louis. Louise later became Queen of Sweden, while the younger Louis served as First Sea Lord, like his father, from 1954 to 1959. The Marquess and Marchioness of Milford Haven were the maternal grandparents of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
After the prince, Mrs Langtry went on to have many other affairs that brought her considerable notoriety, including one with Prince Louis of Battenberg, a close friend of the Prince of Wales.
Lillie also had a relationship with Prince Louis of Battenberg, by whom she had a daughter, Jeanne. Financial difficulties led to Lillie taking to the stage in the 1880s. While she was not a great actress, she was a crowd puller, because of her beauty and her notoriety.
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Dec 15, 2017 · Lillie then became infatuated with a new man, Louis Battenberg, the prince's nephew, and soon found she was pregnant by him. Meanwhile, Edward Langtry's Irish estates were being ruined by political turmoil and the potato famine of the late 1870s.
