This toddler size duvet pillowcase set by NEXT features a colourful animals pattern in a modern style. Made from a cotton blend material, it includes a duvet cover with a cot/cotbed size and a multicoloured design. The set is reversible, making it versatile for any bedroom. Easy to care for with machine wash instructions, this bedding set is perfect for your child's bedroom with its playful animal theme and button closure type. Personalisation is not available for this item.


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Alice Keppel, English socialite (1868-1947) was the favourite mistress of King Edward VII and great grandmother of our current Queen Camilla.

Keppel who went by the nickname Freddie, was the youngest child of eleven children born to Mary Elizabeth, née Parsons, and Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet of Duntreath Castle, the family seat in Scotland.

She married army officer George Keppel in 1891 and they had two daughters Violet Trefusis and Sonia Cubitt. As a younger son, Keppel had no financial means.

Her beauty, charm and discretion made her rise to become one of the most prominent society hostesses of the Edwardian era. Alice met the then Prince of Wales in 1898, he was 56 years and she was 29 years. Their relationship continued until his death in 1910.

Her husband George reportedly also had several affairs of his own and when asked about his wife, is to have said: "I do not mind what she does as long as she comes back to me in the end."

Instead of giving her money directly from the Privy Purse, the king gave Keppel shares in a rubber company; these later gained her £50,000, the equivalent of around £7.5 million today. He created endowments for her through his friends, and promoted George to a high-paying job under Sir Thomas Lipton (who built the Lipton tea empire). King Edward VII let his own bankers and financial advisers manage her businesses.

Her elder daughter, Violet Trefusis (née Keppel) was a writer and socialite, known for her lesbian affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West, who later became the lover of Virginia Woolf.

Her younger daughter, Sonia Cubitt (née Keppel) was the first wife of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe, and, through her only daughter Rosalind, is the maternal grandmother of Queen Camilla.

Following the death of the King, Alice left Britain with George, travelling for several years until they eventually settled in Italy in 1925. They resided in Villa dell' Ombrellino near Florence and continued to live in high ranking social circles, hosting guests which included Sir Winston Churchill. Alice died in 1947, her husband also in the same year. They are buried together