She Let Edward VII's Mistress Visit His Deathbed, Then Kicked Her Out: Queen Alexandra

Every monarchy runs on a lie. The crown goes on the head, the anthem swells, the crowd waves its little paper flags, and behind the velvet rope sits an arrangement so grubby that the official portrait painters charged extra to keep it outside the frame. Everyone in the room has agreed not to mention it. Hold that thought, because no royal scandal you have ever heard holds a candle to what unfolded in a stuffy first-floor bedroom of Buckingham Palace in May of 1910. A King of England lay dying. His wife of forty-seven years waited in the building, and so did his mistress of twelve, and the wife, the Queen, the wronged woman, the one with every reason on Earth to bolt the door, walked over and let the other woman in. Most marriages would not survive a scene like that. Music used in the video: Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Artist: http://audionautix.com/