On my way to the Mill of Kintail in Ontario last summer I knew I needed to take a picture of a sign that was erected in the middle of nowhere years ago. It has always fascinated me, and I often wonder who made the sign. Was it the neighbours, or might it have been the families of former British Loyalists that had hand crafted it? The sign says that in 1860, King Edward the VII knocked on the Metcalfe family’s door in Bennie’s Corners, Ontario. He was then was offered a cool drink from their spring “among the cedars”. What do you do, or say, when the son of Queen Victoria knocks on your door?
Knowing me, I would have first asked the King about his mistress, Alice Keppel, great grandmother to PrinceCharleswife Camilla Parker Bowles.Rumour has it Camilla’s grandmother, Sonia Keppel, was actually the illegitimate daughter of King…
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