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Lady Alice Frederica Edmonstone (coniugata Keppel) (Strathblane, 29 aprile 1868 – Bellosguardo, 11 settembre 1947) è stata una nobildonna scozzese, amante del re Edoardo VII (trisnonno di Carlo III) ed è la bisnonna della regina Camilla del Regno Unito, moglie dello stesso Carlo III.
Alice Frederica Keppel (née Edmonstone; 29 April 1868 – 11 September 1947) was an aristocrat, British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Keppel grew up at Duntreath Castle, the family seat of the Edmonstone baronets in Scotland.
20 dic 2020 · Nata in una famiglia aristocratica nel 1868 e cresciuta a Duntreath Castle in Scozia, Alice Edmonstone aveva sposato a ventitré anni il tenente colonnello George Keppel, un ufficiale della...
20 mag 2021 · In early 1947, Alice Keppel’s life took a dark turn. At the age of 79, she wasn’t in the bloom of her youth, and her health began to nosedive. That September, the legendary mistress passed in her villa from cirrhosis of the liver.
24 nov 2020 · Prince Charles’s great-great grandfather and Camilla’s great-great grandmother were romantically involved. Here's what you need to know about Alice Keppel.
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Alice Keppel (born October 14, 1869, died November 22, 1947) was the most famous of the mistresses of King Edward VII. She was the great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Alice Keppel's grandfather, a Lieutenant-Colonel John Whittle Parsons, had been the Governor of the Ionian Islands at a time when then were British.
Alice’s life was the epitome of Edwardian society – enjoying the excesses of food and drink and money be-fore the dawn of World War I. She is immortalised in Vita Sackville-West’s most well known novel The Ed-wardians, a parody of aristocracy, as Mrs Romola Cheyne:
