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Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, first met Charles II during his exile in The Hague, and had become his mistress by May 1660. She bore the king six children and was created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670 before being supplanted in Charles II's affections by the Duchess of Portsmouth.
RCIN 404957. This picture forms one of the ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court painted by Sir Peter Lely. The series was apparently commissioned or at least assembled by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662-5. Pepys recorded on 21 August 1668 that he ‘did first see ...
Barbara's mother, barely out of her teens at the time of her father's death, remarried to Charles Villiers, 2nd Earl of Anglesey, her first husband's cousin and a Royalist supporter. After the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Villiers family transferred their loyalty to his son, Charles, then a penniless exile, but recognised by the Royalists as Charles II.
Barbara Palmer Facts. 1. Poor Little Rich Girl. Palmer was born Barbara Villiers on November 27, 1640 to the old-as-balls aristocratic Villiers family. Her father William was a Viscount, while her mother Mary was a co-heiress. Sadly, one day it all came crashing down.
Barbara Howard, Countess of Suffolk (née Villiers; May/June 1622 – 13 December 1680), formerly Lady Wentworth, was an English courtier and the wife of James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk. She served as First Lady of the Bedchamber for the queen of England, Catherine of Braganza , from 1660 until 1681.
13 de abr. de 2024 · Barbara Villiers figures prominently in Bernard Shaw's play In Good King Charles's Golden Days. Barbara is the protagonist in Royal Mistress, by Patricia Campbell Horton (1977) Barbara Palmer née Villiers, as Countess of Castlemaine, features prominently in Kathleen Winsor's scandalous 1944 bestseller "Forever Amber".
They were at Hampton Court by June 1835. All appear to be wholly by Lely’s own hand except Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland (RCIN 404515) which is probably a studio copy. Barbara Villiers was Charles II’s principal mistress between 1660 and 1670 and the most powerful woman at court until she was supplanted by Louise de Kéroualle.
