Beautiful for ever

Madame Rachel had everything a Mayfair address, the title of purveyor to Her Majesty the Queen, and a catalogue of exotic creams and potions.

Her clientele were aristocratic, rich, and most importantly, gullible.

They came in their droves to her shop in New Bond Street, lured by the promise of eternal beauty, but what they found was a con-woman and fraudster who made a career out of lies, treachery, and the false hopes of her victims.

From the mysterious origins of the woman known as Madame Rachel, through the teeming markets, filthy prisons and high society drawing rooms of Victorian London, this true story it has all the elements of a