Lillie — Season 1, Episode 5: Bertie
Drama • 51 min • 1 season, 13 episodes • ★ 8.3/10
Episode synopsis
Despite being an icon of beauty and glamour, Lillie's marriage to Edward is a loveless farce. Although Edward attempts to improve her surroundings, wardrobe and lifestyle, Lillie's heart has found another. She becomes close to 'Bertie', the Prince of Wales, eliciting whispers of an illicit affair. After a brief return to Jersey, Lillie entertains the affections of lifelong friend Arthur Jones. But Lillie and the Prince can no longer exist apart, as she is now his mistress.
About Lillie
The affair that shook Victorian society to its core: he was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in open defiance of accepted morality imposed by Victorian and Edwardian society.