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Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen - October 2010
30 de oct. de 2022 · From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1648-1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647 – 15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Frances Stewart (née Howard), Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford (27 July 1578 – 8 October 1639) was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England .
Portrait miniature of Frances Howard, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, watercolour on vellum, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1605-1610. Portrait miniature of Frances Howard, head and shoulders, wearing a crown, in an oval frame with a loop at top. The reverse of the backing card is painted with a design of oval bands and scallops in ochre, brown and gold.
10 de ago. de 2008 · English: Portrait of Frances Stewart (daughter of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon), who had m. Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox on 16 June 1621, a plate from John Smith's The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the adventurers, planters, and governours from their first beginning ano. 1584 to this present 1624: with the procedings ...
The Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, "the double Duchess" as she was dubbed by court observers, was all but inconsolable, insisting that she would never marry again - unless, she added, the King of England himself were to ask her. Frances Howard was clearly a woman who liked to keep her options open.
