WT Stead’s greatest achievement was to raise the age of consent for women as a way of tackling child prostitution in 1885. But this controversial pioneer of red-top journalism, a clairvoyant quasi-socialist, had his flawed fingers in many pies of national importance... not least his friendship with the royal lover, Daisy Greville.
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