LONDON, March 10 (UPI) -- Camilla Parker Bowles will not be the first royal mistress to appear on a British stamp, although she's related to the first one, The Mirror said Thursday.
Despite initial concerns of offending Buckingham Palace, Royal Mail decided to go ahead and feature Parker Bowles and Prince Charles on a stamp after their civil marriage April 8.
Initially, royal watchers said it would be the first time a royal mistress was portrayed on a gluey stamp, but researchers only had to go back to 1995 to find the true precedent.
Parker Bowles' great-grandmother Alice Keppel, who was the lover of Prince Charles's great-great-grandfather Edward VII, were shown in a portrait with their daughter, Violet.
Violet went on in the early 1900s to have a lesbian affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West, who also became romantically involved with writer, Virginia Woolf. Woolf celebrated their love affair in her 1928 novel "Orlando."
