Lily Langtryn to some a harlot, an adulteress, a mistress or just a beautiful passionate society woman in a loveless marriage. My grandmother thought she was a beautiful young girl fondly remembering her face for 'Pear's' soap but my grandfather would not mention her name at all. Lily's husband (according to the book I read) was an inadequate uninspiring man. Her upbringing was far from poor so she could put one foot up on the society ladder with ease. You could say that she pimped herself from one catch to another but unfortunately didn't end her time with the man she truely loved Mountbatten. Apart from falling pregnant allegedly with Mountbatten's child she must have had the intelligence to prevent that happening in the past if the times were as ignorant or innocent as is suggested. Infact she must have been quite savvy despite it being the norm for women to have large families. Where would she have learnt that? Not from her own husband. Had she been born in a downtrodden slum it would have been a different story she probably would have become a prostitute put to work by an unscrupilous pimp.

Perhaps prostitutes should go self employed and pimp themselves from their own home or a brothel run by a woman like Cynthia Payne keeping things in order.