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Lillie was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton in , her father William Corbet Le Breton, was the Dean of Jersey and Rector of St Saviour and she grew up at the Parish Rectory.

She was known as Lillie after her own childish attempts to pronounce Emilie and was the only girl in a family of six boys.

&#;Living the life of my brothers transformed me into an incorrigible tomboy. I could climb trees and vault fences with the best of them, and I entered with infinite relish into their practical jokes&#;.

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She received the same education as her brothers and had lessons for Latin, Mathematics, Greek, German, French, Music and Drawing.

In March Lillie married Edward Langtry, a wealthy widower and the heir to a Belfast shipbuilding family.

By the end of that year, they had moved to London where her beauty soon became the talk of society.

Lillie became the first acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, yet she remained friendly with his wife, Princess Alexandra.