prince, Gordon-Cumming, who maintained his innocence, was persuaded to sign a document declaring he would never play cards again and the incident was to be kept secret. The scandal leaked to the press and in a subsequent court case for slander, instigated by Gordon-Cumming, Edward was forced to appear as a witness. The court found against Gordon-Cumming but the affair caused friction between Edward and Victoria. As monarch When Edward became King Edward VII in 1901, many members of the set were rewarded with offices at court: Horace Farquhar became Master of the King's Household, Arthur Ellis Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's department, and Lord Suffield a lord-in-waiting. As King, Edward ceased to use Marlborough House which was used by Edward's son and the new Prince of Wales George and his wife Mary of Teck. Members The Marlborough Hosue set included a wide variety of members beyond the traditional upper classes. Admission to the set was on the basis of personality, wealth and, for women, beauty. Members of the set included horse racing enthusiasts, bankers, actresses and opera singers as well as a large number of American heiresses who had married into the British aristocracy. Membership included a number of Jewish bankers of the Rothschild, Sassoon and Cassel families, who were not commonly accepted into high society in this period. A prominent member was Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, who had a long affair with Edward during the 1890s. She recalled that she disliked the inclusion of the bankers, not for their background or personalities but for their intelligence and understanding of finance; the other members of the set were generally spendthrifts. Among the bankers, Maurice de Hirsch joined in 1890 after paying off Edward's debts and Ernest Cassel did the same in 1896. The Jewish lawyer George Henry Lewis acted as an informal solicitor to the set and was said to know all its members' secrets. The Marlborough House set was more open to new money figures than other parts of high society. These included the brewer Henry Allsopp and the Lister-Kaye family, whose money derived from cotton mills. The admission of new money represented a shift by Edward from the traditional aristocracy, many of whose members had bankrupted themselves in trying to entertain him. List The membership of the set was constantly changing. However several sources have given lists of those who were members at one time or