Nellie Clifden

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Nellie Clifden was a nineteenth-century actress, believed to be of Irish extraction. She is known for her brief sexual relationship with the 19-year-old Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Bertie), prior to his marriage to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Clifden met the young prince at a party in England and again when he was spending 10 weeks at Curragh Camp in Ireland with the Grenadier Guards in the late summer of 1861; he had previously been a sexual novice. While they were at Cambridge, Charles Carrington arranged for a liaison with Clifden. Guards officers later brought her to Ireland from England for the same purpose, and coded notes in the Prince's appointment book refer to trysts with "NC" on 6, 9, and 11 September 1861. The relationship may have lasted longer. Information about the events reached the Prince's parents. His father Prince Albert duly visited his son at Cambridge, where they took a long walk in the rain, presumably to discuss the Prince's behaviour. Prince Albert's biographer...

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