In the English or British court, a royal mistress is a woman who is the lover of a member of the royal family; specifically, the king. She may be taken either before or after his accession to the thro
Fair Rosamund, an imaginary portrait of Rosamund Clifford, the most famous mistress of King Henry II of England, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rosamund was rumored to have been poisoned by Henry II's wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in some legends.
Edward IV, whose womanising led to several claims concerning precontracted marriages
Mary Boleyn is said to have been so promiscuous she was called the "great prostitute"
This nude may represent either Nell Gwynn, Charles II's most famous mistress or Barbara Villiers as Venus with Cupid, who is about to pull off the last vestige of cloth, covering her genitals, by Peter Lely
Alice Keppel
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Alice Frederica Keppel was an aristocrat, British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII.
English and British royal mistresses
…Lillie Langtry, an actress who had also been courted by Edward's brother and an Austrian prince, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Agnes Keyser, and Alice Keppel, who of all his mistresses had the most political power and sat at his deathbed in 1910. Another of his mistresses was Winston Churchill's mother Lady…
Portrait of Alice Keppel, c. 1890s
Duntreath Castle
Alice Keppel with her daughter Violet in 1899, reproduced on a Royal Mail stamp issued in 1995.
Costume ball at Warwick Castle in 1895