At least the British Victorian nobility still had the good taste to keep it mostly to adultery, and the circumspection, it seems, to keep their adultery largely within their class.
Ridley has a nice account of some of this world, Palmerston, for example, at p 42, re the Lady Patronesses of the Almack Club, Lady Cowper, Madame de Lieven, and Lady Jersey.
Postscript: See Wikipedia: Almack's
It seems even Wellington was once turned away, in trousers.
Postscript: See Wikipedia: Almack's
It seems even Wellington was once turned away, in trousers.
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