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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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

  3. 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 ...

  4. More numerous than suggested by the selection of images analysed here, Barbara Villiers’s portraits as a group present one of the more straightforward and enlightening cases for a study of a Restoration sitter. 8 Two factors determine this assertion: (i) she was without question the woman most often represented in painted portraits during the first decade of the Restoration; and (ii) the ...

  5. Barbara Villiers was Charles II's principal mistress between 1660 and 1670 and the most powerful woman at court. She devoted much energy to public demonstrations of the king's favour through displays of jewels and wealth. She was painted frequently by Lely, who described her beauty as ‘beyond the compass of art’. Cat. 57

  6. 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.

  7. Born in 1664; died in 1717 (some sources cite 1718); illegitimate daughter of Charles II, king of England, and Barbara Villiers (c. 1641–1709); married Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield, in 1677 (died 1716). In 1670, Charles signed the Treaty of Dover with France. Under the terms of this agreement, France and England united to make war ...

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