Sexually lawless ‘aristocratic tart’ or socially ambitious power player? The salacious life of Patsy Cornwallis-West, mistress to King Edward VII

Only sixteen when she began an affair with the Edward VII, history remembers Patsy Cornwallis-West as nothing more than a lascivious manipulator who bedded kings and endangered the war effort – but is there more to the life of this infamous aristocrat?