Tranby

The Prince of Wales was a particular fan of this illegal card game, and until the scandal at Tranby Croft, he carried his own set of counters on his person at all times in case of an impromptu hand.

The Country House Party | Edwardian Promenade 2009

I reflected on these matters as I shoved the ivories round the cushions, and reviewed events since we'd assembled at Tranby two days earlier, which was Monday.

Watershed 2010

Anyway, young Daisy Brooke had been first of the invited guests to Tranby, and had persuaded Bertie that the party would be incomplete without her pal Elspeth, Lady Flashman.

Watershed 2010

One or two who knew I'd been at Tranby quizzed me, but I took a stern and silent line - you know, shockin 'biznai, old comrade, beyond belief, state o' the Army, damnable altogether,,, that sort of thing.

Watershed 2010

To the shocked murmurs and secret glee of Society, the delight of the public, and I've no doubt the tenor of the Prince of Wales, he brought an action for slander against his five accusers from Tranby.

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You'll recall that Cumming was among those I'd suspected of dancing the honeymoon hornpipe with my dear one in days gone by; it had been no more than my normal suspicion of her, and had gone clean out of my head during the Tranby scandal, but now it was back with a vengeance.

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Lest you believe Queen Victoria detested her son and heir, thereby continuing the Hanover legacy of the estrangement of heirs from their ruling sires, Victoria was steadfast in the face of the public scrutiny Bertie faced during the Mordaunt divorce trial, the Blandford-Aylesford scandal, and the Tranby Croft Scandal, and rushed to his bedside during a near-fatal bout of typhoid in the 1870s.

Waiting in the Wings | Edwardian Promenade 2008

She's solved the Tranby mystery, too, albeit her explanation was as staggering as it was undoubtedly true.

Watershed 2010

One learned journal opined that you wouldn't have hung a dog on the evidence that he'd cheated, and I heard it said on every side that the thing should never have come to trial at all: it should have been settled at Tranby, and would have been but for ill-advised zeal on the part of the Prince's friends to save him from scandal.

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By the time of Tranby, to be sure, Elspeth was of an age where it should have been unlikely that either Bertie or Cumming would try to drag her behind the sofa, but I still didn't care to think of her within the fat-fingered reach of one or the trim moustache of t'other.

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