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Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (née Twysden; 25 February 1753 – 23 July 1821) was a British courtier and Lady of the Bedchamber, one of the more notorious of the many mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales, "a scintillating society woman, a heady mix of charm, beauty, and sarcasm".
Lady Frances Villiers (née Howard; ca.1633 – 30 November 1677) was an English noblewoman and a governess to the future Queens Mary II and Anne. Frances was the youngest daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Home (daughter of George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar).
Frances Villiers, Lady Jersey. On March 6, 1770 Frances Twysden married George Bussy Villiers at her stepfather’s home in St Martin in the Fields, London. George, the great-great-great grandson of Sir Edward Villiers and Barbara St John, was some twenty years older than his salacious seventeen year old bride.
Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – 4 June 1645), was the sister-in-law of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the central figure in a notable sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as "the Lady Purbeck’s business".
24 de sept. de 2017 · Frances Coke Villiers was raised in a world which demanded women to be obedient, silent, and chaste. At the age of fifteen, Frances was forced to marry John Villiers, the elder brother of the Duke of Buckingham, as a means to secure her father’s political status.
When Frances was fifteen, her father forced her to marry John Villiers, the elder brother of the royal favorite, the Duke of Buckingham. But as her husband...
14 de ene. de 2019 · Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck. Johanna Luthman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxii + 216 pp. $27.95. | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core.
