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Sixty years after the scandal, the official biographer of King George V, Harold Nicolson, was told by Lord Goddard, who was a twelve-year-old schoolboy at the time of the scandal, that Prince Albert Victor "had been involved in a male brothel scene, and that a solicitor had to commit perjury to clear him. The solicitor was struck off the rolls ...
William I. Goldman (March 27, 1856 – January 25, 1922) was an American commercial photographer based in Reading, Pennsylvania.A freemason and pillar of the community, Goldman photographed the citizens of Reading but also secretly assembled a collection of photographs of the prostitutes of Sallie Shearer's brothel, which was near his studio.
Christened Johannes (John) Saul, he was born in 1857 in a Dublin tenement slum to a hackney cab driver Guilelmus (William) Saul, and Eliza Revington. He was the second child and eldest son of eventually eight children; his parents did not marry until he was six months old, possibly because Eliza was underage.
Frederick Park (right) and Ernest Boulton as Fanny and Stella, 1869. Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers.Both were homosexual men from upper-middle-class families, both enjoyed wearing women's clothes and both enjoyed taking part in theatrical performances—playing the women's roles when they did so.
This picture shows Frances Griffiths, one of two cousins who featured in the images known as the "Cottingley Fairies". This photo was part of a series showing fairies made by the cousins. The photos became highly publicized with some people believing they were fake while others believed their authenticity.
The Private Case is a collection of erotica and pornography held initially by the British Museum and then, from 1973, by the British Library.The collection began between 1836 and 1870 and grew from the receipt of books from legal deposit, from the acquisition of bequests and, in some cases, from requests made to the police following their seizures of obscene material.
Wife of wealthy Florida real estate brother files for divorce as husband is denied bail in alleged sex scandal. ... showing images of Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander prior to a news conference in New ...
The report of the execution in The Morning Post states that when the men were led onto the scaffold the crowd began to hiss, and this continued until the moment of their execution. [2] Possibly this indicated the crowd's disagreement with the execution, [4] or it may have indicated disapproval of the men's alleged acts. [21]