Collectors Post – MABEL LOVE Biography (original) (raw)

Biography
Mabel Love (1874-1953) was a British dancer and actress who was considered to be one of the great stage beauties of her age. Many men found her irresistible. It is said that she was a great favourite of Edward, the Prince of Wales, and it is possible that he provided her with a London house. In 1894, Winston Churchill wrote to her asking for a signed photograph.

Her grandfather had been a ventriloquist and her mother an actress. Mabel, the second of three daughters, made her stage debut at the age of twelve, on December 23, 1886 at the Prince of Wale