Portman Square
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Portman Square is a garden square in Marylebone, central London, surrounded by townhouses. It was specifically for private housing let on long leases having a ground rent by the Portman Estate, which
The square in 1813
Side-view of the south side in 2008, displaying odd traffic system replaced c. 2013
The Dining Room of No. 20 in 1913
Alice Keppel
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Alice Frederica Keppel was an aristocrat, British society hostess and a long-time mistress of King Edward VII.
Portman Square
…restaurant. This was bought on a long lease as home of George Keppel, grandson of George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (noted above), and the husband of Alice Keppel, the mistress of King Edward VII. List of eponymous roads in London…
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