A GUSHING LETTER FROM PRINCE EDWARD ALBERT TO FREDA DUDLEY WARD IS FOUND

DAILY MAIL : GUSHING LOVE LETTER FOUND  and up for auction.

See what you think of this letter that was written when the future King was only twenty-five years old!

When is the last time you wrote and sent a love letter? Leave me a comment!

CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG IN THE MOVIE "KEPT HUSBANDS"

I was thrilled to find the full silent film entitled Kept Husbands which Clara Kimball Young starred in, which was posted by a YouTube station called The Film Detective. It's a story about the rich and the poor, and in the end the woman who started out poor returns to her steelworker husband.

 

Why is it that "Kept" is a term used about mistresses, women who are supported by men they are not married to, while "Kept" is not used for a wife who is entirely dependent on her husband for financial support?  A stay-at-home wife and mother - a 'homemaker' - a woman who is entirely dependent on her husband, is honored. It's tradition. It's conservative.  And today, it's rare to be either!

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GLORIA SWANSON SAID "IF YOU'RE 40 YEARS OLD AND YOU'VE NEVER HAD A FAILURE ...

You've been deprived!

Gloria Swanson by A. L. Whitey Schafer

August's Posts Will Begin Tomorrow!

 MISSY ASKS YOU!

Are you a person who learns from your failures?

ALICE KEPPEL DECORATED THE HOUSES WITH AN ATMOSPHERE OF LUXURY : HER CHILDREN WERE KEPT ASIDE AND HER HUSBAND GAVE HER AND THE KING SPACE

Alice decorated the house to be approved of by the Prince, who it is reasonable to think was paying for most or all of it.  Eventually she would move to an even grander house in Grosvenor Street, and there also decorate to create an atmosphere of luxury.

Excerpt page 195: "The same "atmosphere of luxury" pervaded her bedroom. Its mounds of pillows, cut-glass vases filled with lilies and malmaisons and its rich velvet curtains drawn, in this instance, against  the daylight, all helped to create a suitably seductive setting for her extramarital assignations.  With George Keppel having obligingly gone off to his club - and later his job - for the afternoons, and with the staff remaining discreetly downstairs, the Prince and Mrs. Keppel would be certain of a couple hours to themselves.

The butler would make sure that the children and any visiting friends were kept away in the house, as the Prince showed up and left the house. Yet is is known that the children did understand that the man visiting their mother at the house was a special person.

Oh, I do wonder about so many accommodating husbands.  Let's just say that this was the way of the upper crust of society in those times and may still be the way today.

DO YOU DECORATE YOUR BEDROOM FOR SEDUCTION??

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"MRS. SMITH" WAS HOLLYWOOD-CLOSE TO MICKEY ROONEY and KNEW HE'D BEEN ADDICTED : MISSY ASKS YOU

Mrs. Smith, who was in a relationship with Hollywood star Mickey Rooney, was clearly "in the know" when it came to Mickey and the actresses he worked with.  She says she got involved with him 1940ish.

She says that the studio got both Judy Garland (the star of Wizard of Oz) and Mickey Rooney hooked on drugs, sleeping pills (downers) and amphetamines (uppers) and that is how the studio controlled and managed their child stars.  Mickey and Ava Gardner, in their first marriages to each other, went out to clubs and drank heavily.  According to the authors Ava new he was screwing around but when she got word that he had gone off with a fifteen year old girl, she knew she was on the way out of that marriage.  It seems to me that Mickey Rooney may have been addicted to booze and sex and gambling. He was debt with the bookies and as a result there was always debt as well as his ability to earn more because, at least for some time, he was a top earning star.  The studio knew all this about him but they didn't stop casting him.  He was addicted to Ava, even after their divorce he wanted her back.

  

Missy asks you!  Are you an addict?  What of?  

When in your life did your addiction begin?

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BEHIND THE CANDELABRA -THE FILM

IMBd BEHIND THE CANDELABRA FILM (2013) 

Saw this film - saw it again. I liked it.  I thought Michael Douglas, as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson, acted wonderfully.

But the story is also of a relationship that was hidden from Liberace's adoring fans, and that began when a much older man took advantage of another not-yet-legal one.  There is always a question of maturity and a question of choice. 

Have you had a relationship with a much older adult that began when you were underage?

How do you feel about it?  Leave me a comment!

Missy

LIBERACE SUES CONFIDENTAIL MAGAZINE FOR OUTING HIM IN 1957

LIBERACE SUES CONFIDENTAIL MAGAZINE FOR OUTING HIM IN 1957

Twenty years before Scott, Liberace sued Confidential Magazine.  Scott says he lived his whole life thinking he was still in the closet, despite his flamboyant stage clothing, and, let's say it, that anyone with GAYDAR probably knew right away! - Missy

LA TIMES ARTICLE and DAILY MIRROR : LIBERACE OUTED AS GAY IN 1957 by Larry Harnisch

(Note that this article link expired.)

May 8, 1957  Los Angeles

"Promising nothing less than the destruction of Confidential magazine, Liberace filed a $20-million libel suit over an article in the July issue titled "Why Liberace's Theme Song Should be 'Mad About the Boy.' "

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Missy here: I live in a part of the world where it's OK to be 'out" and where Gay Pride parades happen every year.

What is the attitude towards homosexuality where you live?  Leave me a comment!

A THOUGHT

Coming up....  Here at Mistress Manifesto we will be revisiting the world of the Courtesans but though we often go back to France, Paris in particular, we will focus on England.

Some Courtesans became Mistresses, some Mistresses became Courtesans. 

Some of the women who have lived or do live an Alternative Lifestyle eventually marry

 and have more ordinary lives.

Today I wonder.  How much has been or is about CHOICE?

It's said that a Courtesan always chooses her lover or lovers, 

while attracting many and sometimes creating a competition for her company.  

Today it is assumed that the days when women could become Courtesans is over.

Instead, I think, because divorce is a way out of marriage, there is serial marriages, 

or staying in a marriage but having a Mistress - or a series of them.

Was it all about sex?

Was it all about "class"?

Was it all about acquiring all that money could buy?

What are your thoughts?

Leave me a comment!

Missy

 

HAS YOUR RICHER-THAN-YOU PARTNER MADE YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT PAYING THE WAY?

I seems that most women I know expect the male of the species to have the money to pay for dates, but also feel funny about not contributing in some way.  That means something like, she throws some money in for a tip, or soon invites him to do something she can afford to spend on.  I won't pretend that feminist values or not, I was raised to be what is now called conservative but which was basically how everyone seemed to live. There was little emphasis on education or careers, the assumption being that marriage, being a stay at home wife and mother, was the expectation - even if you had other ideas. Women who did not work for money outside the home didn't want to change that because they thought their husband's might stop supporting them and the children if there was a divorce and divorce -especially before the children were grown up and launched - was rare.

But now?  Friends report having dates - and boyfriends - that have other expectations.

One man I had not heard from for over a year since I met him out with friends and became a friend of sorts to a group of us phoned me after having been asked to leave by his partner of a year. He had by her invitation moved in with her in the condo she had purchased and was paying the mortgage on. When he failed to find a better job than the one he had she decided it wouldn't work.  He had to move back into his parent's house.

Another man I met in a class told me that he had met a woman he wanted to marry but she said up front that she would only do that if he got a job that paid at least $65,000 a year.  He had returned to college hoping that someday he would qualify for such a job, but graduation was a way off and he feared loosing her.  Should he quit school and become a car salesman?

You can take pride in your education, your work, your ability to support yourself without a partner, but is that realistic?  As housing becomes unaffordable for many, and home ownership impossible for many more, it seems as if the women with children who have been abandoned is also a crisis.

Are you in a relationship in which your partner is the one who has or earns more money?  Much more? Does that person make you feel bad about paying the way?  I would like to hear from you!

Missy

GLORIA ZIADIE, LADY COLIN CAMPBELL'S MOTHER and HER EQUALS TOOK THEIR HUSBAND'S OTHER WOMEN IN STRIDE

In this memoir, Lady Colin Campbell recalls that her mother, Gloria, and father, Michael, were abusive to their children, her mother especially, which she credits to her mother's personality disorder, Narcissism. Her parent's were not happily married and her father was one to make sexual demands of the house servants and women who worked at his office as his natural right. But one woman emerged as his mistress, a woman from the office called Mrs. Powell who was thirty-some years younger than him.

In this passage from Chapter 7, she explains her mother's attitude about Mrs. Powell, who, in my opinion, might have been a relief to her mother, Gloria, considering that Michael, her husband, might have settled on one other woman.

Pages 58 - 59

Towards the end of her life, I discovered, while speaking to another member of our family whose husband had always had mistresses, Gloria's true attitude towards marital infidelity. 'She makes a fool of herself carrying on the way she does. As long as the wife's position isn't threatened, or he doesn't bring home unwelcome presents in the form of venereal diseases, it doesn't really matter what a man does. And men, let's face facts, will always be men.They can't help it. All men are unfaithful. A wife who even acknowledges that her husband is being unfaithful lowers herself in his eyes. If I had created a scene every time your father had another woman, I would have spent my life ripping my hair out. Where would that have got me?  I had far too much self respect for that."

'So you really didn't mind?"

"When you're young and impressionable, you mind those sort of things, but, as you get older and learn the ways of the world, you realize there is little point in letting things like that bother you. As long as it wasn't done under my nose and I could ignore it with grace, it wasn't an issue. Women today make far too much fuss about infidelity, but seem quite happy to tolerate things that my generation would have never done.'

'Like what?'

'Men who don't know, and don't want to know, how to take care of their wives. Whatever your father's faults, he always took good care of me. Man was made to protect women and your father was a real man, not one of those namby-pamby freeloaders whom one meets so often nowadays.  Believe me it is better to be a man's darling - even an old man's darling - than any man's slave. Whether or not they've been my slave or not is something else,' she laughed.

Commentary: Lady Colin Campbell goes on to say that the discussion exttended to what if the mistress was of the same status or class.  A relative of theirs had such a mistress and the entire family supported his wife in the matter, so it seems that the attitude that taking a mistress in stride for these British-Jamaican aristocrats, seeing them as Other, keeping them separate, had much to do with a man taking a lower status woman as a mistress.

What is your opinion on that?

 

ARE YOU A HOLLYWOOD MISTRESS?

Does a rich and famous actor or director or someone in Hollywood keep you?

Missy wants to know!

CASSANDRA PETERSON ON THE SEXUAL ASSAULT SHE EXPERIENCED BY A CELEBRITY BASKETBALL SPORTS FIGURE

In perhaps the most horrific passage in her book, 'Yours Cuelly, Elvira' is the sexual assault that Cassandra experienced. To comply with the Google requirements for no sexual explicity, I have not changed any words below, but I have stopped at the ...

Excerpt:

"The other episode involved my friend "Unce Wilty' who I'd run into once or twice at the Playboy mansion since moving back to L.A.

In Las Vegas, whenever Wilt was in town, he and Sunny frequently slept over at the house I shared with her and our other roommates, and spent a lot of time hanging around the pool.  I got to know him and liked him a lot. He was flirty, although always respectful, but he did have a big ego to go along with his big body and big career. He was smart, interesting, and funny, and damn was he big. He towered over us at seven-one. We took a picture together by our pool one time and in it I look like a munchkin, only coming up a little above his waist. It was crazy how big he was - not just tall like his friend Lou Alcinder (aka Kareem Abdul-Jabber) who I'd met with him on a couple occasions, but huge, weighing in at 300 pounds. My entire outstretched hand just fit into his palm.

Wilt had always flirted and kidded around with me, but he was never pushy or rude. He was rich, good looking, and famous, so he had girls coming out of the woodwork. He hardly needed to force himself on anyone like me. I was somehow always able to deflect his advances by joking around, and he'd always laugh and slough it off. I'd known him for so long, I trusted him and felt comfortable around him.  ...

The third time I went to his house for a party, my friend bailed on me at the last minute, so I went alone. An hour or so into the party, he asked if I had seen the closet he'd built for his basketball jerseys from the various teams he'd played with over the years. As I shook my head no, he led me through his bedroom and into his closet, which was roughly the size of my single apartment.  I stood marveling at the rows of size fifteen shoes while he pulled jerseys off the rack  - the Philadelphia Warriors,  the Harlem Globetrotters, the L.A. Lakers - and laid them out on the center island for me to see.  "Wow!", I gasped, trying to look impressed even though I didn't know a thing about basketball. Suddenly, with no warning, he grabbed me from behind, gripped my neck with one gigantic hand, and shoved his sweatpants down with the other. ...

"See, that wasn't so bad, was it?" he asked.

I didn't respond. My face burned with anger and humiliation as he chuckled to himself on his way out of the closet. It all happened so fast I was still in shock. Trembling, I made sure he was gone, then ran into his bathroom, locked the door, and puked into his giant-sized toilet. ...

***

She never heard from this predatory narcissist "friend" again.  He knew what he was doing. This is the story of a man who a woman had known for some time, at least to the point where he had been welcome in her home and she his. And of a celebrity who bragged about having sex with thousands of women. One wonders how many of these women were raped. Cassandra said who would believe an out of work actress and ex stripper. I wish it were "Who would believe an outsized sports figure."

Well, I believe her.

What is the answer here? To never flirt? To never be friendly? To never go to a party? To never trust a man who is a friend? 

****

Please note that I listened to this book as an audio book in which Cassandra Petersen herself reads, and then I got the e-book. My download shows page numbers 252-254 which depends on the size of text one chooses. I do hope you'll want to read this book, just as I hope I've lead you to other books that are worthy of your time reading!  

Missy

ARE YOU MARRIED BY LOVE? MISSY ASKS YOU!

MARRIED BY LOVE.....

Heard this saying the other day...

Leave a Comment!

Missy

MISSY ASKS YOU ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE!

DO YOU LOVE MORE THAN ONE PERSON IN A ROMANTIC WAY?

Do you feel pressure to leave one of them?

LADY WALKER and MISSY HAS A QUESTION FOR YOU!

Lady Walker - her mom - posted on her daughter Cerese's Facebook Page.

FACEBOOK : CERECE WALKER

This photo expresses Lady's personality through her choices in clothing, her shoes and hat, her hairstyle, and the setting - a white Baby Grand.

If you had riches, what would you do with your appearance?

Your clothing?  Your hair?  Your jewelry? Would you have cosmetic surgery?

Please leave a comment!

Missy

WHAT MISTRESS OF THE MONTH ATTRACTED YOU TO THIS BLOG?

WHAT MISTRESS OF THE MONTH ATTRACTED YOU TO THIS BLOG?

I know that the more hits a subject or post gets, the higher up in the ranking, and sometimes that just isn't fair because I spend a lot of time researching for newer subjects and posts too.

I wonder.  WHAT MISTRESS OF THE MONTH ATTRACTED YOU TO THIS BLOG?

Missy

DO YOU LIVE AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE? : MISSY ASKS YOU!

MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOGSPOT focuses on an alternative lifestyle choice, that of being a Mistress (or Kept Person).  I was wondering how many of my readers live what they consider to be an alternative lifestyle?  Are you Kept?  Do you Keep somebody?  Are you married? Do you share a man with another person?

Please leave a comment.

I read all comments before I choose which ones to publish!

Hope to hear from YOU!

Missy

BILL GATES, MELINDA GATES, and ANN WINBLAD ARE (PROBABLY) NOT A LOVE TRIANGLE : OPINION BY MISSY and MISSY ASKS YOU!

The announcement that Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates are calling it quits after 27 years of marriage, three grown children, billions earned and much of it given to charity and good causes - including development of a Covid-19 vaccine, is being reported internationally. Apparently, Bill once dated Ann Winblad for seven years but ended the relationship when he met Melinda. Ann was given the respect of approving of the marriage - or at least giving a strong opinion. I know that's a bit like Camilla Parker Bowles approving of Diana Spencer as a wife for Prince Charles. Ann is also married.

As reporters hunt down "the other woman" who (probably) doesn't exist, though a billionaire like Bill Gates and a billionaire like Melinda French Gates are certainly going to be confettied with persons of interest, the reveal is that for years Bill and Ann spend one weekend a year together at a beach house in North Carolina.

I thought this was terrific. You can bet it was negotiated with Melinda as well as Ann and Ann's husband. Obviously Ann and Bill decided they valued a long friendship and wanted to keep it and did despite many years full of changes. Out of 56 weekends in a year, Ann got one, but it was enough. If Ann were a male best friend very likely Bill could more easily spend a weekend or a whole wifeless vacation week with him, without scrutiny or anyone calling the place they stayed a "love nest." The old friends do a lot of catching up during that weekend.

It seems to me that Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates also have negotiated a friendship, one that includes continuing the philanthropic work of their Foundation. They are also keenly aware that due to their wealth their lives are lived on the world stage and it wouldn't surprise me that the announcement and all else has already been planned. If there is anything that broke them up, busyness is probably to blame. 

The reporters know they have a Big Story but are some of them desperate enough to make stories up out of little evidence? I picked this story up on a publication that I read called Daily Mail (i.e. Daily Mail UK or Daily Mail Online). During Covid-19 lockdown, I found myself reading it way too much. I realized that many an article in this publication is based on speculation or "Royal Experts," many who have written books that have gained them the "Expert" title. However, their opinions are touted as Journalism, and Journalism is based on facts - OK research - interviews - fact finding. If you read the publication enough, you soon realize that there are many conflicting opinions about Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle AKA The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as an example. That is what makes the publication, one of the most popular in the world, a tabloid rather than a 'hard news" venue. 

However, maybe no one but Bill and Ann know if their weekends are part of a SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR relationship. By bringing this up, I do not intend to imply it is. Same Time Next Year was a play I once saw at a straw hat theatre that was made into a movie in the 1970's. In it, two people who had an affair agree to meet each year. She tells her husband she goes to a religious retreat. It's fascinating because they are devoted to their spouses and have no intention of divorce but the personal changes each goes through all those years shows them in distinctly different places in life. His wife dies first.

While one article in the Daily Mail called what Bill and Melinda and Ann have an "odd arrangement" I have to wonder how many people just wish they could have one just like this with someone of the opposite sex with whom they have a valued relationship.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEND ONE WEEKEND A YEAR WITH AN OLD LOVER TURNED FRIEND that your partner knows about?

WHAT'S YOUR LOVESTYLE?

What's YOUR lovestyle?

One person at a time?  or not?

ARE YOU A MAN WHO KEEPS A WOMAN? MISSY ASKS YOU!

Though I like to include some Kept Men, when I can find out about them, MISTRESS MANIFESTO BlogSpot tends towards women - Kept Women - women who want to be Kept - and though I know Lesbian Women are Keeping other Women, I and my readers are curious to know more about the MEN WHO KEEP WOMEN?

They are not all billionaires (or even millionaires) like J.Paul Getty, or his son Gordon Getty.

My guess is that there are a lot of women who work full time but who have their income supplemented by men they are involved with, without living together, be it that he is married or not.

The subject is obscured by privacy, by secrecy, and by romanticized or other inaccurate depictions of Mistress' lives.

An eternal question seems to be, Men who Keep Women, HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Is it a verbal agreement or legal?
If you're married, does your wife know?

We would like to hear from you!

Missy

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