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Barbara Villiers, viscontessa Fitzhardinge (1654 – 19 settembre 1708), è stata una nobildonna inglese. Biografia [ modifica | modifica wikitesto ] Era la figlia del colonnello sir Edward Villiers , e di sua moglie, lady Frances Howard (una discendente di John Howard, I duca di Norfolk ).
Arms of Barbara Villiers as the only daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison: Argent on a cross Gules five escallops Or.. Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers / ˈ v ɪ l ər z / VIL-ərz; 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious ...
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".
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 Villiers, grevinna av Castlemaine och hertiginna av Cleveland, född i november 1640, död 9 oktober 1709, var en engelsk hovdam, mätress till Karl II av England åren 1660–1673. Barbara Villiers hade under sin tid som mätress så stort inflytande att hon kallades "Englands okrönta drottning".
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.
In 1659 Barbara Villiers had married Roger Palmer, later Earl of Castlemaine, although soon after she became King Charles II's mistress, exerting considerable political influence until her fall from favour in the early 1670s.
