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By W. & D. Downey - Weltrundschau zu Reclams Universum 1902, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
Lillie Langtry. By The original uploader was Isis at English Wikipedia. – Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5992883
Daisy Brooke. By The Lafayette Studio – [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5361459
Alice Keppel. By Unknown – http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/index.cfm?event=catalogue.product&productID=166070, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3905064
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King Edward VII’s reign was relatively short, lasting from January 1901 to 1910. Although he is often cited as the (now) second longest serving Prince of Wales, Edward was infamously known for his love life rather than his time as king. He had several notable mistresses who shared his life with him over the years. Edward married Princess Alexandra of Denmark at 21 in 1863. Their marriage was not a particularly happy one, as it was an arranged marriage for dynastic purposes. However, they were cordial with each other and had certainly reached a comfortable agreement with one another. Alexandra knew of Edward’s extramarital affairs and was civil and respectful to the women she shared Bertie with.
Lillie Langtry was Edward’s first serious mistress. Born on the island of Jersey, Langtree, an actress, met the Prince of Wales at a dinner party in 1877. Edward quickly became infatuated with her, and the two were inseparable for the next three years. The affair ended when Langtree became pregnant, most likely by a friend. Edward separated himself from her after her affair with the Earl of Shrewsbury resulted in the press suggesting that he would be called upon in the divorce case. Edward would use his influence to help her stage career, but that was it.
Edward’s second long-term mistress was Daisy Brooke, the society hostess married to Francis Greville, Lord Brooke. She was a member of the Marlborough House Set, the group of socialites that formed the Prince and Princess of Wales’s inner circle. Her affair with the Prince would continue for nine years and was a source of fun and entertainment. During the affair, her husband inherited the Earldom of Warwick which allowed Brooke countless opportunities to publicly spend time with the Prince. She was known as the Babbling Brooke for allowing news of her affairs to get out, but she also challenged Edward on many social issues. After their affair ended, she went on to found countless charities for women and children of the poorest ranks of society. Brooke also became a socialist and wrote over ten books on different topics, including socialism and the First World War. In 1923 she stood for election for the Labour party (though wasn’t elected).
Alice Keppel, Edward’s final mistress, is without a doubt the most infamous, due to her being the Duchess of Cornwall’s great-grandmother. Keppel met the King in 1898 at the age of 29, and despite a 26 year age gap, quickly won him over. Instead of paying her directly, Edward gave her shares in a rubber company, which earned her the money needed to finance a royal lifestyle. He preferred Keppel to Brooke, as she was far more discreet and useful in his working life. When Edward became king in 1901, Keppel held a prominent role at court and often went between the King and his ministers. Alexandra allowed Keppel to come to the King’s bedside when he was dying, though she had to be removed due to hysterics. Once he had passed, she and her family left Britain. Several gifts from Edward to Keppel were stolen from Sudeley Castle in September 2019; see the Royal Central article here . Unfortunately, the thieves have not been apprehended yet.

By W. & D. Downey - Weltrundschau zu Reclams Universum 1902, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
Lillie Langtry. By The original uploader was Isis at English Wikipedia. – Unknown, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5992883
Daisy Brooke. By The Lafayette Studio – [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5361459
Alice Keppel. By Unknown – http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/index.cfm?event=catalogue.product&productID=166070, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3905064
Historian and blogger at AnHistorianAboutTown.com
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King Edward VII’s reign was relatively short, lasting from January 1901 to 1910. Although he is often cited as the (now) second longest serving Prince of Wales, Edward was infamously known for his love life rather than his time as king. He had several notable mistresses who shared his life with him over the years. Edward married Princess Alexandra of Denmark at 21 in 1863. Their marriage was not a particularly happy one, as it was an arranged marriage for dynastic purposes. However, they were cordial with each other and had certainly reached a comfortable agreement with one another. Alexandra knew of Edward’s extramarital affairs and was civil and respectful to the women she shared Bertie with.
Lillie Langtry was Edward’s first serious mistress. Born on the island of Jersey, Langtree, an actress, met the Prince of Wales at a dinner party in 1877. Edward quickly became infatuated with her, and the two were inseparable for the next three years. The affair ended when Langtree became pregnant, most likely by a friend. Edward separated himself from her after her affair with the Earl of Shrewsbury resulted in the press suggesting that he would be called upon in the divorce case. Edward would use his influence to help her stage career, but that was it.
Edward’s second long-term mistress was Daisy Brooke, the society hostess married to Francis Greville, Lord Brooke. She was a member of the Marlborough House Set, the group of socialites that formed the Prince and Princess of Wales’s inner circle. Her affair with the Prince would continue for nine years and was a source of fun and entertainment. During the affair, her husband inherited the Earldom of Warwick which allowed Brooke countless opportunities to publicly spend time with the Prince. She was known as the Babbling Brooke for allowing news of her affairs to get out, but she also challenged Edward on many social issues. After their affair ended, she went on to found countless charities for women and children of the poorest ranks of society. Brooke also became a socialist and wrote over ten books on different topics, including socialism and the First World War. In 1923 she stood for election for the Labour party (though wasn’t elected).
Alice Keppel, Edward’s final mistress, is without a doubt the most infamous, due to her being the Duchess of Cornwall’s great-grandmother. Keppel met the King in 1898 at the age of 29, and despite a 26 year age gap, quickly won him over. Instead of paying her directly, Edward gave her shares in a rubber company, which earned her the money needed to finance a royal lifestyle. He preferred Keppel to Brooke, as she was far more discreet and useful in his working life. When Edward became king in 1901, Keppel held a prominent role at court and often went between the King and his ministers. Alexandra allowed Keppel to come to the King’s bedside when he was dying, though she had to be removed due to hysterics. Once he had passed, she and her family left Britain. Several gifts from Edward to Keppel were stolen from Sudeley Castle in September 2019; see the Royal Central article here . Unfortunately, the thieves have not been apprehended yet.

Home » Married Men having Mistresses - The Tradition of Kept Women
Married men having mistresses is one of the most significant markers – some would say, consequences – of the patriarchal underpinnings of human society. And thus it spans vast stretches of time as well as space – the tradition of kept women has carried on over millennia and is to be found in almost every corner of the world. The idea of a websites that make affairs possible may be new but the concept of Mistresses is very old.
The idea of the mistress was one of the principal ways that patriarchy established itself as the source of all power in society. The polarity of the ‘wife and the whore’, the ‘angel at home and the fallen woman on the streets’ is a common one in almost all major religions and cultures. It was by dividing the subjecthood of women into these two polar opposites that patriarchy managed to divide and subjugate the female sex as well as wrest supremacy in culture, economy, religion, politics and all aspects of society.
Meet millionaire men at MillionaireMatch.com. In the most popular sense of the term, a mistress is a woman who is involved in a romantic relationship with a man married to someone else. The significance of the term becomes apparent when compared to roles like a ‘partner’ or ‘girlfriend’. A woman can be called a partner or girlfriend of a man - even if he is married - and still be considered one half of a relationship, though extra-marital. In contrast, the term ‘mistress’ immediately brings with it connotation of a threesome, an extra third of a three-sided relationship. Closely related to the above idea, is the fact that the term mistress carries with it a risqué element, a feeling of someone engaged in something taboo. An example is the definition of mistress in the Oxford English Dictionary as “a woman who illicitly occupies the place of wife”. The sense of the socially condemned role arises from viewing the “other woman” as committing adultery – a sinful act. Interestingly it is the male partner – as a married man – who is the prime actor is this adulterous relationship and therefore most liable to be condemned. The mistress or the other woman may not be married at all – as is usually the case – and hence not the primary participant in the sin of adultery. But then how is a relationship with a mistress different from an extra-marital fling? The former implies a relationship that has been going on for some time while the latter is merely a casual encounter, a one-night stand perhaps. A mistress is one who has been involved with her married lover for some length of time; in fact British writers Wendy James and Susan Jane Kedgely 1 say “A mistress by our definition is a woman with whom a married man has a parallel relationship, or a woman who, outside her own marriage, has a relationship with another man. All these illicit relationships… must be long-term and as a yardstick we chose one year as the minimum period of involvement”. Another important difference between a mistress and a sexual partner for a one-night stand is that there is some degree of emotional attachment with the former while there is no emotional give and take in case of a casual fling. This difference is a natural consequence of the fact that a mistress relationship is not a one-time affair but grounded in some length of time and thus brings with it all its related emotions of involvement, guilt, responsibility and dissembling. What about the economics of keeping a mistress? In earlier times when employment opportunities for women – especially those from the middle and upper class – were severely limited, they could choose either the role of a wife or mistress. In case of the latter it was understood that the male lover in exchange for sexual favors and emotional support would assume the financial responsibilities of his mistress - and sometimes her dependents too - and it was this arrangement that gave way to the tradition of the ‘kept woman’. And even though now with women becoming financially self-reliant, the modern usage of the term mistress need not imply any financial dependence on the male lover, some degree of financial element in the nature of lavish presents or expensive vacations is usually still involved. However on the other side of the spectrum of modern mistresses are those who would be quite averse to receiving financial support from her partner. These are usually self-confident, busy professional women who can comfortably support themselves and have no need of men to take care of their financial needs. This type in fact figures as one of many different categories of mistresses in a very interesting book by Penelope Orth 2. According to the writer, this kind of mistress is a Career Woman who has no time for marriage and hence takes a married man as a lover. Another kind is The Assistant who works tirelessly for her male lover who is most often her boss or at least a senior co-worker at the workplace. Then there is the One-Man Call Girl which of course means exactly what it says and lastly the Masochistic Mistress who really wants to get married but inevitably gets entangled with men who cannot marry her, who in other words are already married. While by definition a mistress has a married lover for a man, what about her own marital status? Different scholars and writers have interpreted this differently. Orth in her 1970s book on the contemporary American mistress defines her as ‘a single woman, divorced, widowed, or never married, who is having an enduring affair with a married man…’ however according to the British definition put forward by Wendy James and Susan Jane Kedgely, a mistress can be married herself. ‘A mistress by our definition’, say the writers ‘is a woman with whom a married man has a parallel relationship, or a woman who, outside her own marriage, has a relationship with another man’. That the latter scenario has always existed is evident in the past tradition of royal mistresses where kings and rulers often had mistresses who were wives of other nobles or aristocrats. However in the more popular and contemporary sense of the term mistress, it does not usually imply someone who also a wife. Finally like all other sexual, gender and cultural signifiers, the ‘mistress’ too has evolved over time. With changes in legal, economic and cultural position of women, the roles, privileges of and expectations from a mistress too are undergoing constant change even though the idea of the glamorous, slightly illicit figure is too delicious to let go off completely. References: Mistresses : T he Free Woman and the Unfree Man , Wendy James and Susan Jane Kedgely TBS The Book Service Ltd; 1st edition (Oct 1973) A Enviable Position : The American Mistress from Slightly Kept to Practically Married. Penelope Orth, David McKay Co; 1St Edition (October 1972)
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