Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet, was a Scottish landowner, soldier, socialite and a notorious womaniser. He was the central figure in the royal baccarat scandal of 1891. After
Gordon-Cumming in 1891
Gordon-Cumming as depicted by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair, 1880
Sir William Gordon Cumming in the dock
The future Edward VII in the witness box
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick was a British socialite and philanthropist. Although embedded in late-Victorian British high society, she was also a campaigning socialist, support
Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet
…before the events at Tranby Croft, the Prince of Wales returned early from travelling in Europe; he visited Harriet Street where he found his mistress, Daisy, Lady Brooke, "in Gordon-Cumming's arms", which soured the relationship between the two men. After Gordon-Cumming's death in 1930, his house at Gordonstoun was…
Daisy Greville, 1899
Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick, and her son Maynard Greville (1898–1960), by John Singer Sargent (1905)
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Lafayette Studio, 1897
Daisy, Countess of Warwick, from Bystander magazine, October 1905