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Edward VII's Last Loves: Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser
 
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Edward VII's Last Loves: Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Raymond Lamont-Brown (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 213 pages
  • Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition edition (19 Nov 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750918225
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750918220
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,060,660 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In 1898, the youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, later crowned Edward VII. Hailed as one of the beauties of the "naughty nineties", Alice Keppel became a leader of the fashionable set, and as The Hon. Mrs George Keppel was one of the best-known society hostesses of the Edwardian era. The author of this study tells Alice's story against the backdrop of tempestuous world events, a racy royal court and an age of aristocratic adultery and mindless pleasure-seeking. The result is a portrait of a woman who loved, and was loved by, the king. At the same time that he met Alice Keppel, the Prince of Wales embarked on another close friendship, this time with Agnes Keyser, the daughter of a prominent member of the Stock Exchange. A financially independent and unconventional woman, Agnes defied social expectations by not marrying, and instead becoming involved in hospital charity work as a founder, with her sister, of the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, first opened at her London home near Hyde Park. The relationship between Agnes and the King, enjoyed in parallel with Edward's affair with Alice Keppel, was much less in the public eye and less demonstrative, but their loving companionship, mutual support and intellectual exchange was just as important. For 12 years, she provided the King with an affection that often supplanted that of Alice Keppel, and was accepted by the royal family in a way that Alice was not. This volume examines the lives of the two women, their love for the monarch and the role they played in the declining years of one of the most active royal courts in Europe. The author reveals the two womens' separate, and often underrated, roles in politics and diplomacy.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Steer well clear!, 4 Jun 2007
By Martin S. Williams "Honest Injun" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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How this book ever made it into print is beyond me. I am passionately interested in the history of royalty and society in the early years of the twentieth century and so approached 'Edward VII's Last Loves' with high hopes. I was desperately disappointed. Lamont-Brown has one of the dullest and most leaden prose styles I have ever come across. Any human interest is totally lost in the dense genealogical tangles the author cannot resist attempting (and usually failing) to unravel on virtually every page. The fact that these digressions often have little or no relevance to the characters at the heart of his story, and are desperately boring besides, was apparantly given little consideration by either author or editor. The narrative pace is further held up by Lamont-Brown's habit of supplying the 'dates' for every individual he mentions in the body of the text. This information, potentially useful though it might be, should really have been confined to footnotes, where it rightfully belongs.

Far more worryingly, Lamont-Brown makes some serious errors in attributing primary sources. Whether this is sheer laziness on his part or whether he actively intended to 'bend' the facts to his purpose is open to question. But NOTHING would induce me to pick up his book again.

Steer well clear!
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