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Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1648-1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
6 de oct. de 2022 · When Charles II’s suffering but reluctantly tolerant wife Catherine of Braganza (1638–1705) accepted the beautiful noblewoman Frances Stuart (1647–1702) as her lady-in-waiting in 1663, she probably knew what was coming. It was a state of affairs that had soured the couple’s arranged union. “ She [Catherine] should have expected her ...
10 de feb. de 2023 · When Frances arrived at court, Barbara swiftly took her under her wing. Gramont noted that Barbara: ‘affected to make Miss Stewart her favourite, and invited her to all the entertainments she made for the king; And [. . .] she often kept her to sleep.
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Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647 – 15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Stuart, Frances (1647–1702)Duchess of Richmond and Lennox. Name variations: Frances Blantyre; Frances Stewart; known as La Belle Stuart. Born Frances Teresa Stuart in 1647 (some sources cite 1648) in Scotland; died on October 15, 1702, in London; daughter of Walter Stuart (or Stewart)and Sophia Stuart ; married Charles Stuart, duke of Richmond and Lennox, in 1667; no children.
Frances Stewart , Duchess of Lennox and Richmond, Countess of Hertford was the daughter of a younger son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune, she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of England. She married the son of a London alderman who died in 1599, leaving her a wealthy widow at a young age. She became, for 20 years, the third wife of the ageing Edward ...
