How Britain’s randiest royal dubbed ‘Dirty Bertie’ had legendary custom SEX THRONE built for raunchy threesomes
THE sex life of the royal family is a carefully guarded secret with the s-word rarely being associated with them at all.
However, there’s one randy royal renowned for his elaborate bedroom antics – and he even had a special piece of furniture designed to help him live out his fantasies.
Dubbed “Dirty Bertie” one British king owned a gold plated sex throne designed to help him bed multiple women at once.
Previously known as prince Albert, Edward VII was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and the great, great grandfather of King Charles.
He was crowned in 1902 and reigned for nine years until his death in 1910.
Given Victoria’s lengthy reign of nearly 64 years, the playboy prince had ample time to fill before he was crowned.
While waiting for the title the randy royal loved to spend his days treating himself to the finer things in life – women and food.
Before he was bound by his kingly duties Bertie made sure to make the most of his freedom – and his romping chair.
Also known as “Edward the caresser” the future king had an exotic and adventurous sex life.
Due to the prudish nature of the British he would often hop over the channel to Paris to satisfy his desires.
Here he was a regular patron of the most expensive and luxurious brothel, La Chabanais.
Bertie had his contraption delivered to the brothel in 1890.
When the French courtesan La Barucci, self proclaimed “greatest whore in the world” was introduced to the future king she promptly dropped her dress to the floor and exposed herself.
And when she was chastised by others in the room for her disrespect, she quipped “I showed him the best I have and it was free.”
Bertie’s favourite mistress in London was Alice Keppel who coincidentally is Queen Camilla‘s great, great grandmother.
He was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark and the pair had six children together.
Bertie is said to have been up for a laugh with his “genial good humour and confident bonhomie”.
He loved hunting and country sports and ordered all the clocks at Sandringham to run half an hour ahead to provide more daylight time for shooting.
The future king also had a reputation for scrubbing up well and would regularly don tweed, Homburg hats and Norfolk jackets.
Bertie’s sex seat is such a complex design that it left Historian Tracy Borman “perturbed” with its suspended cushioning and metal stirrups.
Tracy is a curator at Britain’s Historic Palaces and is the host of a new documentary called the Private Lives of Monarchs.
To film the show the team borrowed a “very faithful replica” of the chair, but even after much deliberation it left the crew baffled.
Tracy said: “What really perturbed me about the chair is that there was room on it for two ladies, one on top and one underneath — but exactly how he got to the one underneath we never managed to work out between the whole crew.”
She added: “So what she was doing down there, whether it was like a queuing system, she was just lying down there to wait, I don’t know.”
It’s thought that after years of gobbling up pigeon pies and drinking claret by the litre Dirty Bertie was a somewhat portly fellow.
This would have made “parking the bus” a physically exerting task – and that’s where the chair came in.
The gilt-edged piece of bespoke furniture was designed to allow the King to more comfortably and easily fulfil his desires.
A replica of the erotic contraption went on sale in New Orleans just in time for valentines day of 2020.
It was available to buy from M.S. Rau Antiques for £60,000.
According to Fox Business, the antique store says the original chair is owned by one of Soubrier’s descendants and another replica is on display at the Museum of Sex in Prague.
There has been much speculation online as to the logistics of using the throne.
Another time when the sex life of royals made the news was in the tampon gate scandal.
It got its name from a phone call made in 1989 between the then Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
During the phone call, Charles and Camilla fantasised about being intimate with each other, and Charles joked about being reincarnated as a tampon so he could live “inside her”.
The incident rocked royal fans when it was leaked to the press in 1993.