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MARION MCMULLEN recalls how the royal scandals of Queen Victoria's playboy son gripped TV audiences 50 years ago

- MARION MCMULLEN

MISTRESSES, politics and right royal family rows all helped to make Edward The Seventh compulsive viewing.

The life of Queen Victoria's playboy son brought Timothy West to public notice 50 years ago when the 13-part mini-series started broadcasting on ITV this month in 1975.

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