By the 1940s, when memories of Emily Langton Langton's activities at Bournemouth had begun to fade, local people or the hotel proprietors apparently muddled the names and began to say that the single lady who had lived at the Red House in the 1880s was none other than the notorious Emilie "Lillie" Langtry, the mistress of the Prince of Wales (who later became Edward VII).The Spectator, Volume 179. 1947. (Advertisements for Manor Heath Hotel).Country Life, Volume 101. 1947. (Advertisements for Manor Heath Hotel).
