Spanning three decades and packed with incident, scandal and high romance, the story of the mistresses of Edward VII unfolds against a background of the extravagant and hypocritical world of late Victorian and Edwardian society The main characters in the melodrama are the beautiful Alexandra, his own betrayed wife, Lillie Langtry, the socially ambitious girl from a vicarage, Daisy Warwick, heiress and social butterfly, and Alice Keppel, probably the King's greatest love