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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 3 días · This was the heyday of Golden Square as a political and social centre. Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, lived at No. 7. James Brydges, the future Duke of Chandos, but in 1707 Paymaster of the Forces, lived at No. 20 and had his office at No. 19A.
Hace 3 días · Killer Queen. May 19, 2024 books i've read, crime fiction, diversity, equality, history, homophobia, television, the apartment, true crime. Ah, my lord the Duke of Buckingham; probably one of the most successful fuckboys in history. Contemporaries wrote of his physical beauty constantly when he was a young man, and first coming to the attention ...
Hace 5 días · Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland and Charles II are ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales and Sarah, Duchess of York. Louise Renée de Penancoet de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth and Charles II are ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales, Queen Camilla, and Sarah, Duchess of York.
Hace 2 días · According to Mr. Cunningham, it commemorates the name of Charles Fitzroy, the second Duke of Grafton (whose father, the first duke, was a natural son of King Charles II., by Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland), to whom the lease of the Manor of Tottenham Court descended in right of his mother, Lady Isabella Bennet, the daughter ...
Hace 3 días · All of the sons of Barbara Villiers, Nell Gwynne and Louise de Kérouaille that survived to adulthood were given dukedoms in their own right. Three of these, the Dukedoms of Grafton, St Albans, and Richmond and Lennox, still exist in the line of descent from Charles II.
Hace 4 días · The best, but most licentious, of his comedies is Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687), an imitation of the Eunuchus of Terence, in which the heroine is supposed to represent Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II.
