How Britain’s randiest royal dubbed ‘Dirty Bertie’ had legendary custom SEX THRONE built for raunchy threesomes

THE royal family is normally careful to maintain prim and proper appearances - and keep their colourful sex lives a secret.

However, one randy royal became renowned for his elaborate bedroom antics - and he even had a mind-boggling piece of furniture designed to help him take part in orgies.

Dubbed "Dirty Bertie", the future King Edward VII owned a gold plated sex throne designed to help him bed multiple women at once.

Then known as Prince Albert, he was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and the great, great grandfather of King Charles.

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He finally became king in 1901, and reigned for nine years until his death in 1910.

Given Victoria's long reign of nearly 64 years, the playboy prince had ample time to fill before he took the top job.

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While waiting for the title the randy royal loved to spend his days treating himself to the finer things in life - women and food.

Before he was bound by his kingly duties Bertie made sure to make the most of his freedom - and his romping chair.

Also known as "Edward the Caresser" the future king had an exotic and adventurous sex life and took many mistresses.

Due to the prudish nature of the British he would often hop over the channel to Paris to satisfy his desires.

Here he was a regular patron of the city's most expensive and luxurious brothels, La Chabanais.

The Prince of Wales had his contraption delivered to the brothel in 1890.

Bertie's sex seat is such a complex design that it left historian Tracy Borman "perturbed" with its suspended cushioning and metal stirrups.

Tracy is a curator at Britain’s Historic Palaces and was the host of a documentary called The Private Lives Of Monarchs.

To film the show, the team borrowed a "very faithful replica" of the chair, but even after much deliberation it left them baffled.

Tracy said: "What really perturbed me about the chair is that there was room on it for two ladies, one on top and one underneath — but exactly how he got to the one underneath we never managed to work out between the whole crew.”

She added: "So what she was doing down there, whether it was like a queuing system, she was just lying down there to wait, I don’t know.”

It's thought that after years of gobbling up pigeon pies and drinking claret by the litre Dirty Bertie was a somewhat portly fellow.

This would have made "parking the bus" a physically exerting task - and that's where the chair came in.

The gilt-edged piece of bespoke furniture was designed to allow the prince to more comfortably and easily fulfil his desires.

The original siège d'amour - or love seat - is said to be owned by a descendant of Louis Soubrier, the Paris cabinetmaker who built it for the prince.

A replica of the erotic contraption went on sale in New Orleans just in time for valentines day of 2020, priced at £60,000.

And another replica is on display at the Museum of Sex in Prague.

Besides his time in the brothels, The Prince of Wales was well known for his numerous affairs in England.

Among his famous mistresses were the actresses Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry, Winston Churchill's mother Lady Randolph Churchill, and aristocrats Mary Cornwallis-West, Daisy Greville and Lady Susan Vane-Tempest.

When the French courtesan La Barucci, self proclaimed “greatest whore in the world” was introduced to the future king she promptly dropped her dress to the floor and exposed herself.

And when she was chastised by others in the room for her disrespect, she quipped “I showed him the best I have and it was free.”

Bertie's favourite mistress in London was said to be Alice Keppel who coincidentally is Queen Camilla's great, great grandmother.

He was 60 by the time his ascended to the throne in 1901.

At his coronation a year later, “the King’s special ladies” had their own pew in Westminster Abbey.

The playboy prince was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark and the pair had six legitimate children.

Bertie is said to have been up for a laugh with his "genial good humour and confident bonhomie".

He loved hunting and country sports and ordered all the clocks at Sandringham to run half an hour ahead to provide more daylight time for shooting.

The future king also had a reputation for scrubbing up well and would regularly don tweed, Homburg hats and Norfolk jackets.

Another time when the sex life of royals made the news was in the tampon gate scandal.

It got its name from a phone call made in 1989 between the then Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

During the phone call, Charles and Camilla fantasised about being intimate with each other, and Charles joked about being reincarnated as a tampon so he could live "inside her".

The incident rocked royal fans when it was leaked to the press in 1993.