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(35,454 posts)Her family simply wasn't up to the standard of the time required for a future king. Her grandmother bedded Charle's great grandfather.
Her name was Alice Keppel. When she met the future king she was 29, dazzlingly good-looking, famously witty, and already had a reputation as a woman with a voracious sexual appetite who expected lavish rewards for her favours. Love is all very well, she liked to say, but money is better.
Mrs Keppel became the Prince of Waless mistress in 1898 and remained his favourite until his death 12 years later. Throughout his reign, which began in 1901, she liked to say she was the real Queen of England, and that his wife Alexandra was not his soulmate she was.
But Bertie, as he was known to friends, was far from being the first wealthy man Mrs Keppel seduced for his money. Almost from the day she married the Hon George Keppel, third son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle, and discovered he was not the millionaire she had imagined, Alice was determined to be rich.
She would get money by the only means open to her: the sale of her body to wealthy men. Alice had two children, but her husband was father of neither the first, Violet, was the daughter of an MP and banker named Ernest Beckett, and the second, Sonia, was almost certainly the child of the King himself.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3782534/What-naughty-girl-Former-maid-reveals-Camilla-s-great-granny-Alice-Keppel-famously-seduced-Edward-VII-bedded-men-money.html#ixzz4rU8oxoSi
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