Sep 15, 2026 · 44 min · 10 segments
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are settling into life in England, announcing upcoming engagements, posting lovely countryside Instagram Reels with the kids, and ruffling the feathers of their royal…
Allie MerriamHost[whimsical music] Allie, we're back after a mini hiatus, and it really shouldn't surprise us anymore when we take these little breaks that, while we're gone, a whole lotta drama happens.
Yesterday, my family and I went to Margaret Greville, who was a society lady during the Edwardian era.
She was really good friends with Queen Mary, bequeathed a bunch of her jewels to the royal family when she died.
She has this big, grand house in, in Surrey in the English countryside, and it's now a museum.
And I noticed in the dining room, there's an old seating chart on one of the side tables that you can look at, and it had been placed there, I think, because at this dinner party, this particular dinner party, King Edward VII had been there.
So they're probably displaying it to show that how she hosted royalty and that she had these grand weekends.
But what was interesting about the seating chart is that catty-cornered from him, the king, is a one Honorable Mrs. Alice Keppel, and then far down the line at the end of the table is the Honorable George Keppel, Alice's husband.
Now, we know, of course, that Alice Keppel was Queen Camilla's great-grandmother, mistress of Edward VII.
Everyone at that dinner party would have known exactly what was going on, of course.
She's seated next to a different person, and then the husband is seated down at the end of the table.
He's there, um, even though he wouldn't have been the, you know, there at the request of the king.
To keep up appearances, the husband came, but he was sort of exiled to Siberia at the end of the table.
And it gives a little glimpse into the social mores of the time and class, where husbands and wives weren't next to each other, and women probably didn't sit next to each other, and same with the men.
Yeah, and a little, a good little bit of royal miscellany for people like us who enjoy these tidbits from history.
Yeah, just there, tucked away in the corner of this dining room, but it tells a whole story.
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[whimsical music] Allie, we're back after a mini hiatus, and it really shouldn't surprise us anymore when we take these little breaks that, while we're gone, a whole lotta drama happens.
Yesterday, my family and I went to Margaret Greville, who was a society lady during the Edwardian era.
She was really good friends with Queen Mary, bequeathed a bunch of her jewels to the royal family when she died.
She has this big, grand house in, in Surrey in the English countryside, and it's now a museum.
And I noticed in the dining room, there's an old seating chart on one of the side tables that you can look at, and it had been placed there, I think, because at this dinner party, this particular dinner party, King Edward VII had been there.
So they're probably displaying it to show that how she hosted royalty and that she had these grand weekends.
But what was interesting about the seating chart is that catty-cornered from him, the king, is a one Honorable Mrs. Alice Keppel, and then far down the line at the end of the table is the Honorable George Keppel, Alice's husband.
Now, we know, of course, that Alice Keppel was Queen Camilla's great-grandmother, mistress of Edward VII.
Everyone at that dinner party would have known exactly what was going on, of course.
She's seated next to a different person, and then the husband is seated down at the end of the table.
He's there, um, even though he wouldn't have been the, you know, there at the request of the king.
To keep up appearances, the husband came, but he was sort of exiled to Siberia at the end of the table.
And it gives a little glimpse into the social mores of the time and class, where husbands and wives weren't next to each other, and women probably didn't sit next to each other, and same with the men.
Yeah, and a little, a good little bit of royal miscellany for people like us who enjoy these tidbits from history.
Yeah, just there, tucked away in the corner of this dining room, but it tells a whole story.
