How Royal Palace Tried to Erase Camilla's Great-Grandmother | History for Sleep

Step into the world of Alice Keppel, the real royal mistress of King Edward VII and the great-grandmother of Queen Camilla, wife of King Charles III. Raised behind the cold stone walls of Duntreath Castle, a Scottish fortress her family had held since the fourteen hundreds, Alice Keppel grew up to become one of the most quietly influential women in Edwardian England and the British royal court. Step into a world of Victorian childhood and Edwardian high society, of calling cards and candlelight, royal discretion and unspoken rules, where a decade-long royal affair with the future King of England was carried out so carefully that official royal history almost managed to erase it completely. This is the untold story the palace never wanted told in full, the secret history behind the British monarchy's most discreet royal scandal, and the one her own great-granddaughter, Queen Camilla, would one day complete without ever meaning to. _____________________________________________________ SOURCES 📖 Diana Souhami, "Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter," HarperCollins, 1996. Jane Ridley, "Bertie: A Life of Edward VII," Chatto & Windus, 2012. Sonia Keppel, "Edwardian Daughter," Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Raymond Lamont-Brown, "Edward VII's Last Loves: Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser," Sutton, 1998. Christopher Hibbert, "Edward VII: The Last Victorian King," Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Penny Junor, "Queen Consort: The Life of Queen Camilla," HarperCollins, 2018. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "Keppel, Alice." #historyforsleep #royalhistory #sleephistory #QueenCamilla #royalscandals