“who for a while became the semi-official mistress of the future Edward VII. When Edward once complained, ‘I’ve spent enough on you to buy a battleship,’ Lillie retorted, ‘And you’ve spent enough in me to float one!’”
While I find such a thing utterly uninteresting, I must admit the sheer logistics of pulling something like that off successfully is somewhat impressive.
ratelimitsteve•2d ago
ben_w•2d ago
Slightly more recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Chatterley's_Lover
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse