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William Nell. Occupation. Actress. Partner. Charles II of England. Children. Charles Beauclerk (1670–1726) James Beauclerk (1671–1680) Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period.
Charles had 13 children by these ‘ladies’ and agreed to support the children he believed were his. He had doubts about some of Lady Castlemaine’s children as he had caught her in a compromising position with John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough.
6 de mar. de 2021 · In May 1670, Gwyn gave birth to Charles’s son, his seventh from five mistresses (his wife had never had a child due to numerous miscarriages). It was not long after the birth that Gwyn retired from performing. Although, she did return to appear in Dryden’s Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards.
On 17 April 1694 her son Charles Beauclerk married Lady Diana de Vere, daughter and heiress of Aubrey de Vere, the last Earl of Oxford. The marriage was to produce 12 children. The most famous of the many mistresses of 'the Merry Monarch', Charles II, a classic rags to riches story.
21 de dic. de 2005 · The London of Nell Gwyn's childhood was teeming with possessed souls. Women of course were the main target of the Puritans' blind projection of humankind's darker nature, and their status...
11 de mar. de 2024 · She persuaded the king to create her son Charles Beauclerk, 1st Baron Heddington and Earl of Burford and, subsequently, Duke of St. Albans. Her second son, James, Lord Beauclerk (b. 1671), died in 1680. Nell settled her mother in a house in Chelsea, where, in July 1679, overcome by brandy, Mrs. Gwyn fell into a nearby brook and was drowned.
2 de feb. de 2000 · There was an elder sister, Rose, who married a highwayman and spent time in prison for theft. At thirteen, Nell got a job as an orange girl at the newly opened King’s Theatre in Drury Lane (forerunner of the Theatre Royal), where she developed her gift for quickfire repartee.
