Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At the University of Oxford, he edited an undergraduate journal, The Spirit Lamp
Douglas in 1903 (by George Charles Beresford)
His father, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, May 1893
The calling card, labelled Exhibit A in the trial (bottom left corner)
Constance Mary Holland, better known as Constance Wilde, was an Anglo-Irish writer, born in London. She was the wife of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde and the mother of their two sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.
Lord Alfred Douglas
…admiration from an artist and a receipt from a tradesman". In 1894, Douglas came and visited Wilde in Worthing, to the consternation of the latter's wife Constance. On another occasion, while staying with Wilde in Brighton, Douglas fell ill with influenza and was nursed by Wilde, but failed to return the favour…
Portrait by Louis William Desanges (1882)
Constance with her son Cyril in 1889
Constance at a charity flower stall held at Kensington Town Hall, April 1891