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Hace 2 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 2 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.
The Earl of Sussex, and later his tenants, the Duke of Bolton and Edward Lord Russell, successively occupied the house from 1683 to at least 1707, the Earl of Sussex and his wife Anne, a daughter of Barbara Villiers and supposedly of Charles II, having obtained a further lease in 1706.
Hace 5 días · Then there is Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, fairest and gayest of the fair but frail beauties of the Court of the second Charles: this lady was the daughter of William, Viscount Grandison, and wife of Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine, one of the Palmers of Wingham, Kent, and of Dorney Court, Backs.
Hace 5 días · Barbara Villiers was considered an influential figure of her time and sometimes held more influence over Charles than his own wife. 5. Another of Henry VIII's mistress, she was the mother of Henry's first living son, Henry Fitzroy who later became Duke of Richmond.
Hace 4 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 3 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.
