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19 de jul. de 2024 · Many illegitimate children of British monarchs have the surname FitzRoy or Fitzroy, a surname derived from the Anglo-Norman with Fitz, meaning “son of”, and Roy, meaning “king”. The name implied the original bearer of the surname was the child of a king.
Hace 5 días · In 2000 the duchess of Grafton reopened the restored village hall at Grafton Regis at a ceremony at which a history of the village, written partly by Charles FitzRoy, was published.
16 de jul. de 2024 · Charlotte Street, the thoroughfare leading from Rathbone Place to Fitzroy Square, was named either after Charlotte, Duchess of Grafton, or after the Queen of George III. Here, in the house formerly occupied by Sir Thomas Apreece, George Morland, the celebrated painter, was living in 1796.
Hace 2 días · His grandfather, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, was the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1768 to 1770. He was notably a sixth-generation descendant of King Charles II and the 1st Duchess of Cleveland ; the surname FitzRoy stems from this illegitimacy.
5 de jul. de 2024 · Born July 16, 1672, at her mother’s home, Cleveland House in London, England, Lady Barbara Fitzroy was the illegitimate daughter of Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland in her own right. Around the time of Lady Barbara’s birth, Louise de Kérouaille was replacing her mother as King Charles II’s primary mistress.
15 de jul. de 2024 · Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718), formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his best known mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.
Hace 5 días · The ancient parish of Grafton Regis occupied some 1,300 acres (fn. 1) on the west bank of the river Tove about ten miles south of Northampton and four miles north-west of Stony Stratford. (fn. 2) The parish was bounded on the east and north by the Tove, which separates Grafton from Stoke Bruerne, Ashton, Hartwell and the Buckinghamshire parish o...
