Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter write by Diana Souhami. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. Formidable and manipulative, her attentions to the king brought her wealth, power, and status. Her daughter Violet Trefusis had a long tempestuous affair with the author and aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, during which Vita left her husband and two sons to travel abroad with Violet. It was a liaison that threatened the fabric of Violet's social world, and her passion and recalcitrance in pursuit of it pitted her against her mother and society. From memoirs, diaries, and letters, Diana Souhami portrays this fascinating and intense mother/daughter relationship in Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Her story of these women, their lovers, and their lovers' mothers, highlights Edwardian - and contemporary - duplicity and double standards and goes to the heart of questions about sexual freedoms.
Mrs Keppel
Mrs Keppel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mrs Keppel write by Tom Quinn. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Mrs Keppel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else mattered - especially when it came to her infamous affair with King Edward VII. As the King's favourite mistress up until his death in 1910, Alice held significant influence at court and over Edward himself. But it wasn't just Edward she courted: throughout her life, Alice enthusiastically embarked on affairs with bankers, MPs, peers - anybody who could elevate her standing and pay the right price. She was a shrewd courtesan, and her charisma and voracity ensured her both power and money, combined as they were with an aptitude for manipulation. Drawing on a range of sources, including salacious first-hand eyewitness accounts, bestselling author Tom Quinn paints an extraordinary picture of the Edwardian aristocracy, and traces the lives of royal mistresses down to Alice's great-granddaughter, the current Duchess of Cornwall. Both intriguing and astonishing, this is an unadulterated glimpse into a hidden world of scandal, decadence and debauchery.
Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser
Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser write by Raymond Lamont-Brown. This book was released on 2011-10-24. Alice Keppel and Agnes Keyser available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed look at the two women in the life of Edward VII during his last years. Alice Keppel, youngest daughter of a Scottish retired admiral and MP emerged from obscurity in 1898 to become the publicly acknowledged mistress of the portly, fun-loving Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII. Agnes Keyser, daughter of a prominent member of the Stock exchange, defied social expectations by not marrying, instead becoming involved in hospital charity work. Her twelve-year relationship with the king was much less in the public eye, but was just as important.
The Shadow Sister
The Shadow Sister - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shadow Sister write by Lucinda Riley. This book was released on 2017-04-18. The Shadow Sister available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Star D'Apliese is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father - the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world.
Signature Killers
Signature Killers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signature Killers write by Robert D. Keppel. This book was released on 1997. Signature Killers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions, and depraved motives of serial killers. From the Lonely Hearts Killer who hunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Gacy, these are the cases--horrifying, graphic and unforgettable--that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind. Foreword by Ann Rule.
