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Alice Frederica Keppel, née Edmonstone was a British socialite and the most famous mistress of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Her full title after marriage was The Hon. Mrs George Keppel. Her daughter, Violet Trefusis, was the lover of poet Vita Sackville-West. She is the maternal great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Keppel was born Alice Frederica Edmonstone, to Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet and Mary Elizabeth Edmonstone, née Parsons, at Woolwich Dockyard, the scion of a distinguished family. Her…mehr

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Alice Frederica Keppel, née Edmonstone was a British socialite and the most famous mistress of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Her full title after marriage was The Hon. Mrs George Keppel. Her daughter, Violet Trefusis, was the lover of poet Vita Sackville-West. She is the maternal great-grandmother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Keppel was born Alice Frederica Edmonstone, to Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet and Mary Elizabeth Edmonstone, née Parsons, at Woolwich Dockyard, the scion of a distinguished family. Her father was the 4th Baronet Edmonstone and a retired Admiral in the Royal Navy; her grandfather had been Governor of the Ionian Islands. She had one brother and seven sisters, Alice being the youngest. Alice married George Keppel, son of the 7th Earl of Albemarle and four years her senior, on 1 June 1891.