About Lady Meux

Lady Valerie Susan Meux was a socialite in the victorian times and wife to Sir Henry Meux, 3rd baronet, a London brewer. Originally Valerie Langdon, though thought to be an actress using the stage name Val Reece, working at a casino in Holborn. There were many rumours that she had been a prostitute as well. Such rumours were probably why Sir Henry and Valerie married in secret and in hast on the 27th  of August 1878.