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
