Which King did Henry James nickname Edward the caresser?
That would be Edward VII, aka “Bertie”. Clever play on Edward the Confessor I imagine. Bertie was quite the ladies ma much to the chagrin of his prudish mother–he most definitely was “not amused” when it came to Bertie’s indiscreet liaisons. One of his more notable mistresses was Alice Keppel, the great grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles.
