Valerie, Lady Meux

Valerie Susan Meux, Baroness Meux (* 1852 in London as Valerie Susan Langdon, † 1910 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire ) was a British actress. Some sources suggest that she was a prostitute.

Life

Valerie Susan Langdon was the daughter of a butcher from Devonshire. After a brief marriage to a vaudeville artist, she had numerous liaisons, including a brief affair with the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VII and a liaison with the Russian Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, the one Hutatelier on Hanover Square in her the London financed.

In 1878, Valerie Langdon caused a scandal by secretly married the wealthy entrepreneur Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baron Meux ( 1820-1900), heir to a London brewery empire. The honeymoon, which were extended not just gossip, gossip, because very, led them to France, Italy, India and Egypt. From the marriage, which by all accounts was happy, went forth two sons - but died shortly after birth.

Lady Meux was an eccentric beauty, a renowned collection of Egyptian antiquities - over 800 scarabs and amulets - from Abydos and Luxor had in their possession. After her death, Lady Meux bequeathed the collection to the British Museum.