HARRY MOUNT charts the bizarre story of the banjo-playing prostitute who became a society sensation

What the wealthy baronet didn’t know — or at least claimed not to know — was that Valerie Langdon usually worked in a dive in Holborn, London, called the Casino de Venise. There she spent her evenings as a barmaid, banjo player — and prostitute One night, in late Victorian Brighton, Sir Henry Meux, a … Read more