Who was Alice Keppel? | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5418625/Who-Alice-Keppel-Edward-VIIs-mistress-described.html)
QuoteAlice Keppel became Edward VII's mistress in 1898, when she was aged just 29 and he was 57, and remained the favourite of Queen Victoria's son until his death 12 years later.
Throughout the king's reign, which began in 1901, Keppel liked to say she was the real Queen of England, and that his wife Alexandra was not his soulmate ? she was.
The Royal Family did all they could, after his death in 1910, to destroy evidence of Edward VII?s long affair with Alice.