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Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (born autumn 1641, London, England—died October 9, 1709, Chiswick, Middlesex) was a favourite mistress of the English king Charles II; she bore several of his illegitimate children. According to the diarist Samuel Pepys, she was a woman of exceptional beauty, but others commented on her crude mannerisms.
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Barbara Villiers (*noviembre de 1641-†9 de octubre de 1709), primera duquesa de Cleveland y amante del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, más conocida por su título de condesa de Castlemaine . Infancia. Hija única del noble caballero Williams Villiers (2º Vizconde de Grandison) y de la noble dama Mary Bayning.
Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, was the favourite mistress of King Charles II…. To the writer and diarist John Evelyn, she was ‘the curse of the nation’. To the Bishop of Salisbury, she was ‘a woman of great beauty, enormously vivacious and ravenous; foolish but imperious’. To the Chancellor of England, she was ‘that lady’.
Barbara Villiers (*noviembre de 1641-†9 de octubre de 1709), primera duquesa de Cleveland y amante del rey Carlos II de Inglaterra, más conocida por su título de condesa de Castlemaine. Quick facts: Barbara Villiers, Información personal, Nacim...
Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (ca 1641-1709) c. 1665. RCIN 404957. 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.
27 de nov. de 2019 · Posted 27 Nov 2019, by Chloe Esslemont. Known alternately as 'the uncrowned queen' of Great Britain, or – as famous diarist John Evelyn termed her – 'the curse of the nation', Barbara Villiers remains one of the most divisive and fascinating women of the Restoration. Barbara Villiers (1640–1709), Duchess of Cleveland.
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.
