What was King Edward VII’s ‘love chair’?
Albert, Prince of Wales – who ruled as King Edward VII between 1901 and 1910 – was famous for his appetite: for food, as well as love-making. So, to help him better entertain the famous courtesans of Le Chabanais brothel in Paris, the king-to-be commissioned an elegant, double-decker chair by Louis Soubrier, the renowned cabinetmaker of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
Adorned with elegant brocade fabric, the resulting piece of furniture was a marvel of both decadence and ingenuity, and enabled the corpulent royal to have sex with two women at the same time without subjecting them to the full weight of his body.