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Barbara Palmer Facts. Maneater, mistress, "uncrowned queen": Barbara Palmer was King Charles II's favorite courtesan—until it all came crashing down.
13 de ago. de 2019 · She was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she ha...
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Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland. The favourite mistress of Charles II during the 1660s, Barbara Villiers was a dominant presence both at court and in the public's imagination. She married Roger Palmer, later the Earl of Castlemaine, in 1659, and met Charles soon after. She was appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen ...
17 de oct. de 2023 · Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine ( née Barbara Villiers / ˈvɪlərz / VIL-ərz; 27 November [ O.S. 17 November] 1640 [1] – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled ...
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. The daughter of the Royalist William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614–43), she married Roger Palmer (1634–1705) in 1659; she was granted the title of Countess of ...
This chapter examines two portraits of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland (1641–1709), and one of Charles II’s numerous mistresses. Painted between 1660 and 1668 by Sir Peter Lely, the portraits functioned as important sites for self-presentation in early modern England. The chapter analyses the portraits within the context of early modern ‘life writing ...
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.
