Though heavily chided by his family, the Prince of Wales seemed unchanged by his first appearance in court. “He continued to visit ladies, he still wrote letters, and he still saw his ‘fast’ friends,” writes historian Jane Ridley.
it was his incorrigible wandering eye that brought the prince to the witness stand the first time. In 1870, he was dragged into the divorce suit Sir Charles Mordaunt, a Warwickshire MP, waged against his wife, Harriet Sarah Mordaunt.
Sir Charles seemed determined to ruin not only his wife but also her alleged lovers. In February 1870, Sir Charles took the stand in Westminster Hall and proceeded to implicate the prince. “He took care to mention my name so often, — & in order to compromise me in every possible way — that I fear I have now no other alternative but to come forward and clear myself,” Bertie wrote to a mortified Queen Victoria.
Twenty years later, the dissipated prince was still living the sporting life. In September of 1890 he arrived at the estate of Tranby Croft in Yorkshire, owned by shipping industrialist Arthur Wilson and his popular wife, Mary. He was there for a house party that had gathered to attend the nearby Doncaster Races.
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