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Hace 5 días · Sir Peter Lely, Portrait of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and later Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), full-length, seated in a silver dress and blue drapery, a landscape beyond (Undated), sold for $716,300 ($151,800 low estimate).
Hace 4 días · First, there was Sir Peter Lely’s Portrait of Barbara Villiers. The subject was a prominent noblewoman in seventeenth-century England. She held the titles Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland, later appointed as Queen Catherine’s Lady of the Bedchamber, and was even one of King Charles II’s mistresses.
Hace 3 días · Barbara Villiers was considered one of the most beautiful of the young Royalist women but her lack of a dowry did not help her marriage prospects. In 1659, she married the Roman Catholic Roger Palmer, later 1st Earl of Castlemaine, against his family’s wishes. In 1660, Barbara became Charles’ mistress. King Charles II of England; Credit – Wikipedia
Hace 3 días · Barbara Villiers (1641–1709) was the daughter of William, Viscount Grandison. She married Roger Palmer in 1659 and shortly afterwards became the mistress of Charles II. On her husband's elevation to the peerage she became Countess of Castlemaine, and she was created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670.
Hace 4 días · In 1670, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, was made Countess of Southampton and her son, Charles (by Charles II), was first Earl, and then (in 1675), Duke of Southampton. In 1710 he took the title of Duke of Cleveland and died in 1730.
Hace 3 días · Lucy Walter and Charles II are ancestors of Sarah, Duchess of York and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland and Charles II are ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York.
Hace 1 día · It is said to have been the last home of Charles II's former mistress Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland (1641-1709), who was buried in Chiswick church, and to have supplied a lodging for the politician Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) as a law student c. 1796.
