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Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex (née Palmer; 25 February 1661 – 16 May 1721 or 1722), formerly Lady Anne FitzRoy, was the eldest daughter of Barbara Villiers, mistress to King Charles II. She became the wife of Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex .
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Brief Life History of Anne Palmer. When Lady Anne Palmer FitzRoy, Countess of Sussex was born on 25 February 1661, in Westminster, Middlesex, England, her father, Charles II Stuart King of England and Scotland, was 30 and her mother, Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland, was 20. She married Thomas Lennard 1st Earl of Sussex on 16 May 1674 ...
Tomb alleged to be that of Annie Palmer at Rose Hall, Jamaica. The White Witch is a legendary story of a haunting in Jamaica. According to the legend, the spirit of a white plantation owner named Annie Palmer haunts the grounds of Rose Hall, Montego Bay.
20 de ene. de 2022 · Anne Lennard (née Palmer), Countess of Sussex (25 February 1661 – 16 May 1721 or 1722) was the eldest daughter of Barbara Palmer, mistress to King Charles II of England. She became the wife of Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex, 15th Baron Dacre. Born Lady Anne Palmer in Westminster, England, she was the first child of Barbara ...
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Born into the Villiers family as Barbara Villiers, in the parish of St Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex, she was the only child of the 2nd Viscount Grandison, a half-nephew of the 1st Duke of Buckingham, and of his wife Mary Bayning, co-heiress of the 1st Viscount Bayning. On 29 September 1643, her father died in the First English Civil War from ...
Tall, voluptuous, with masses of brunette hair, slanting, heavy-lidded violet eyes, alabaster skin, and a sensuous, sulky mouth, Barbara Villiers was considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Royalist women, but her lack of fortune left her with reduced marriage prospects. Her first serious romance was with the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, but...
Lady Castlemaine's influence over the King waxed and waned throughout her tenure as royal mistress. At her height, her influence was so great that she has been referred to as "The Uncrowned Queen," and she was known to assert her influence with the King over the actual Queen, Catherine of Braganza. This initially began upon the Queen's landing at P...
Lady Castlemaine was known for her dual nature. She was famously extravagant and promiscuous, with a renowned temper that often turned itself on the King when she was displeased. Diarist John Evelyn called her "the curse of the nation". She held influence over the King in her position as royal mistress and helped herself to money from the Privy Pur...
The King had taken other mistresses, the most notable being the actress Nell Gwynne. Later in their relationship, the Duchess of Cleveland took other lovers too, including the acrobat Jacob Hall, the 1st Baron Dover and her second cousin John Churchill. Her lovers benefited financially from the arrangement; Churchill purchased an annuity with £5,00...
Theatre
Barbara Villiers figures prominently in Bernard Shaw's In Good King Charles's Golden Days (1939) and Jessica Swale's Nell Gwynn (2015), played in the premiere productions by Daphne Heard and Sasha Waddellrespectively.
Novels
Villiers is the protagonist in the following literary fiction novels: 1. Royal Mistress(1977) by Patricia Campbell Horton 2. Royal Harlot (2007) by Susan Holloway Scott 3. Forever Amber (1944) by Kathleen Winsor 4. A Health Unto His Majesty (1956) by Jean Plaidy 5. The Sceptre and the Rose (1967) by Doris Leslie And as being a recurring character in Susanna Gregory's Thomas Chaloner series of mystery novels.
Film
Barbara is played: 1. In the 1911 film Sweet Nell of Old Druryby Agnes Keogh 2. In the 1922 film The Glorious Adventure by Elizabeth Beerbohm 3. In the 1926 film Nell Gwyn by Juliette Compton 4. In the 1934 film Colonel Blood by Anne Grey 5. In the 1947 film Forever Amberby Natalie Draper 6. In the 1989 film The Lady and the Highwayman by Emma Samms 7. In the 1995 film England, My England by Letitia Dean 8. In the 2009 film Broadside by Antonia Kinlay
Andrews, Allen (1970). The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine. Chilton Book Company. ISBN 0-8019-5525-4.Fraser, Antonia (2002). King Charles II. Phoenix Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0753814031.Gilmour, Margaret (1941). The great lady, a biography of Barbara Villiers, mistress of Charles II. Knopf."Portrait of Barbara Villiers". Archived from the original on 8 March 2006. Retrieved 23 March 2004.Portrait of Barbara Villiers and Charles Fitzroy[permanent dead link]- English
- William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison, Mary Bayning
- 9 October 1709 (aged 68), Chiswick Mall, England
Lady Anne Palmer, más tarde FitzRoy (1661-1722), probablemente hija de Carlos II, aunque algunas personas creían que se parecía al conde de Chesterfield . Fue reclamada por Charles, Chesterfield y Palmer. Más tarde se convirtió en la condesa de Sussex.
Lady Anne's Arboretum. Planting in Lady Anne’s Arboretum began in earnest in the mid 1970s. Many of the trees were raised from seed collected by Lady Anne Palmer (later Lady Anne Berry), who maintained meticulous records of the origin of every plant in her collection.
