How finishing school, heartbreak and ‘Camillagate’ prepared the Queen Consort for the throne
Queen Consort was ten, she stated proudly in the classroom of Queen’s Gate School, South Kensington, ‘My great-grandmother (Alice Keppel) was the lover of the king. We’re practically royalty. ’ She was not to know, of course, that she too would become the mistress of King Charles – although she went one better by eventually marrying him.