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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 ...
Barbara Villiers, born in 1640, was the daughter of William Villiers, Viscount Grandison, a royalist who died in 1643 of wounds received in the Civil War. In 1659 she married Roger Palmer, a lawyer, during an affair with Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, who in January 1660 had to leave England after killing an adversary in a duel
Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge ( née Villiers; c. 1654 – 19 September 1708) was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne of Great Britain and governess to Prince William, Duke of Gloucester. [2] Her sister Elizabeth Villiers (later Countess of Orkney) was the acknowledged mistress of William III of England from 1680 to 1695.
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.
10 de feb. de 2023 · The most powerful woman in England: Barbara Villiers. Though only 23 herself, Barbara was a pro at the machinations of court. By June 1663, she had borne two of the King’s illegitimate children and was pregnant with their third.
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.
Although this miniature has been linked to the unfinished sketch of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine in the Royal Collection (420109), differences between the tilt of the head and the type of hairstyle shown in each make it likely that they derive from separate sittings given to Samuel Cooper. Samuel Pepys, a keen admirer, later recorded how I glutted myself with looking at her when ...
