Among 20 Fabergé pieces will be a famed blue enamel Art Nouveau cigarette case featuring a diamond-encrusted snake biting its own tail that Edward VII received from his mistress Alice Keppel in ...

A Faberge cigarette case given to King Edward VII by his mistress Alice Keppel – a relative of Queen Camilla (Royal Collection/HM King Charles III 2024/PA) The glamour and the opulence of the ...

Judith Keppel is descended from Alice Keppel, the mistress of Edward VII and the great-grandmother of the Prince of Wales's companion, Camilla Parker Bowles. The link makes the two women cousins.

1900, d. 1986). Sonia's mother (and Rosalind's grandmother) Alice Keppel, was a mistress of King Edward VII. In 1939, Rosalind was named "Debutante of the Year." She married Bruce in 1946 at St ...