English and British royal mistress younger brother William IV on 26 June 1830. William had cohabited with his mistress Dorothy Jordan from the late 1780s to 1811. He only married his wife Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen on 11 July 1818. They were reputed to have a happy marriage until his death on 20 June 1837 and evidence of any other mistress is absent. Queen Victoria married her husband Albert while very young, and enjoyed a devoted marriage until his death in 1861. In grief-stricken widowhood she largely closed herself away from the world. However, in the latter part of her reign, there was contemporary gossip around
Mrs Thursday Mrs Thursday Mrs Thursday is a British television comedy-drama produced by Associated Television. It stars veteran British actress Kathleen Harrison as Alice Thursday, a Cockney charwoman who inherits £10 million and the controlling interest in a multinational company upon the death of her employer (as well as his Rolls Royce and Mayfair mansion). Hugh Manning played Richard Hunter, Mrs Thursday's butler, business adviser and confidant. The series was devised by Ted Willis and featured scripts by Jack Rosenthal. Three series of "Mrs Thursday" were produced. Series One (13 episodes) was broadcast between March 15 and June 7, 1966, Series Two