"Her husband, George Villiers, added the surname Child by royal licence. Lady Jersey married George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey, on 23 May 1804, in the drawing room of her house in Berkeley Square. Her husband's mother, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey (also Lady Jersey), was one of the more notorious mistresses of King George IV when he was Prince of Wales. Her sister Maria married John Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, later the 4th Earl of Bessborough, a brother of Lady Caroline Lamb. Her own affairs, though conducted discreetly, were said to be numerous: Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston,"
"second wife Hon. Theresa Robinson. Her maternal grandparents were Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham and Frances Worsley. They had ten children: George Villiers (1759–1827) George Villiers (23 November 1759 – 21 March 1827), styled The Honourable, was a British courtier and politician from the Villiers family. The youngest son of the diplomat Lord Hyde (later Earl of Clarendon), he was an intimate of Princess Amelia and personal supporter of her father, George III. His favour within the Royal Family and his father's influence brought him a number of sinecures to support him. However, Villiers was more interested in the operation"
"Robert Fielding Robert Fielding (or ""Feilding""; also nicknamed Beau Fielding; 1650/51 – 12 May 1712) was an English bigamist and rake in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was known as a handsome womanizer at the royal court of King Charles II, where he was given the nicknames ""Beau"" and ""Handsome"" Fielding, and later became the bigamous husband of his former mistress, Barbara Villiers, the first Duchess of Cleveland. Fielding was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, to George Fielding, a kinsman of the Earl of Denbigh. There is no record of his mother. A minor reference to his early"
"Barbara Villiers, Mary Davis, Nell Gwyn, Louise de Kérouaille, Hortense Mancini, Mrs. Knight, Mary Bagot (widow of Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth) and Elizabeth, Countess of Kildare. Among these women are both the noble and the common: Charles is the first monarch whose mistresses from the lower classes are recorded. These women provided him with fourteen acknowledged bastards. Barbara Villiers, one of his longest-standing mistresses (fourteen years), was a woman well known for her beauty, as well as her sexual promiscuity and that she had affairs with at least five other men during her tenure as mistress (and it"
"at St Kentigern's Church at Caldbeck (St. Kentigern is also known as St. Mungo). Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (1778 – 7 February 1837) was known as ""The Maid of Buttermere"" and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's ""The Prelude"". She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel ""The Maid of Buttermere"", which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009. She was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District. She was married bigamously"
"Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) Mary Robinson (1778 – 7 February 1837) was known as ""The Maid of Buttermere"" and is mentioned in William Wordsworth's ""The Prelude"". She is the subject of Melvyn Bragg's 1987 novel ""The Maid of Buttermere"", which was adapted into a play by Lisa Evans and premiered at Keswick's Theatre by the Lake in 2009. She was a shepherdess and the daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in the village of Buttermere in England's Lake District. She was married bigamously in 1802 to John Hatfield (c.1758–1803), who presented himself as ""Colonel Hope"". The marriage"
"Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – May 1645), was the sister-in-law of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the central figure in a notorious sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as “the Lady Purbeck’s business”. Frances was the younger daughter of the judge and privy councillor Sir Edward Coke and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Hatton. She was born at Hatton House in London, and baptised on 2 September 1602 in the church of St Andrew Holborn. In 1617, her father betrothed Frances"
"novel ""Mary Anne"" (1954) is a fictionalised account of her great-great-grandmother, Mary Anne Clarke née Thompson (1776–1852), who, from 1803–08, was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (1763–1827). He was the ""Grand Old Duke of York"" of the nursery rhyme, a son of King George III, and brother of King George IV and King William IV. The central character of her last novel, ""Rule Britannia"", is an aging actress, thought to be based on Gladys Cooper (to whom it is dedicated). Du Maurier's short stories are darker: ""The Birds"", ""Don't Look Now"", ""The Apple Tree"", and ""The"
"of Barbara and Sir Edward Villiers. William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (1614–1643) was a supporter of King Charles I and died of wounds received at the Battle of Bristol in 1643. His daughter the Hon. Barbara Villiers, became the mistress of King Charles II and was created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670. The second Viscount Grandison had had no sons and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother, the third Viscount. He died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother, the fourth Viscount. On his death the title passed to his grandson, the fifth Viscount. He was"
"Mierevelt of Delft and dated 1623, is on view to the public as part of the guided stairway tour at Ashdown House, Oxfordshire, a National Trust property. Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck (August 1602 – May 1645), was the sister-in-law of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the central figure in a notorious sex scandal within the English aristocracy of the early 17th century that was known at the time as “the Lady Purbeck’s business”. Frances was the younger daughter of the judge and privy councillor Sir Edward Coke and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Hatton."
"Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton (c. 1610 – 15 December 1654), born Anne Villiers, was an English noblewoman, famed for her beauty, bravery and loyalty to the throne. The first half of the 17th-century closet drama ""Cicilia and Clorinda"" was dedicated to her. Anne was the daughter of Sir Edward Villiers (c. 1574 – 7 September 1626) and his wife, Barbara St. John, a daughter of Sir John St. John. She was a half-niece of the Duke of Buckingham, who was one of her father's younger half-brothers. Anne Villiers's nieces included Elizabeth Villiers, mistress to"
"a degree of social importance in the Hanoverian era, and was hostess to George I and George II at her estate at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire. She died in London on 19 April 1733. Elizabeth was a first cousin of Barbara Villiers, a mistress of Charles II, as their fathers were brothers. Her paternal aunt was Elizabeth Villiers, Countess of Morton, the godmother and governess of Princess Henrietta. Her brother was Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, whose great-grandson married Frances Twysden, yet another royal mistress. By George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, son of Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, and"
"most lucrative ""was her prose. The money helped to support herself, her mother and daughter, and often Banastre Tarleton. Novels such as ""Vancenza"" (1792), ""The Widow"" (1794), ""Angelina"" (1796), and ""Walsingham"" (1797) went through multiple editions and were often translated into French and German. They owed part of their popularity to their suspected autobiographical elements. Even when her characters were placed in scenes of gothic horror, their views could be related to the experiences of their author."" Mary Robinson was one of the first female celebrities of the modern era. She was scandalous, but on the other hand educated and"
"novel ""The King's Concubine"" by Anne O'Brien. Alice is also featured in some of Candice Robb's books, in a series known as Medieval Mysteries and also in ""The Traitor's Noose"", the fourth novel in the ""Lions and Lilies"" series by Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson. Alice Perrers Alice Perrers (1348–1400) was a fourteenth-century English royal mistress whose lover and patron was King Edward III of England. She met him originally in her capacity as a lady-in-waiting to Edward's consort, Philippa of Hainault. She went on to become the wealthiest woman in the land. However, she was despised by"
"ambition or vanity, and whose sensitivity does not hide the firmness of heart. For Louise, this was her first serious attachment and she was reportedly an innocent, religious-minded girl who initially brought neither coquetry nor self-interest to their secret relationship. She was not extravagant and was not interested in money or titles that could come from her situation; she wanted only the King's love. Antonia Fraser writes that she was a ""secret lover not a ""Maîtresse-en-titre"" like Barbara Villiers."" Nicolas Fouquet's curiosity in the affair was one of the causes of his disgrace, for, when he bribed Louise, the King"
"eventually contributed to his downfall, since Barbara returned his hatred, and worked constantly to destroy him. Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton (c. 1610 – 15 December 1654), born Anne Villiers, was an English noblewoman, famed for her beauty, bravery and loyalty to the throne. The first half of the 17th-century closet drama ""Cicilia and Clorinda"" was dedicated to her. Anne was the daughter of Sir Edward Villiers (c. 1574 – 7 September 1626) and his wife, Barbara St. John, a daughter of Sir John St. John. She was a half-niece of the Duke of Buckingham,"
"John (c. 1552-1594) of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire and Lucy Hungerford (1560-1598), daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford (c.1526-1596) of Farleigh Castle, Somerset, by Anne Dormer (1525-1603), by whom he had ten children. Villiers' wife was the niece of Oliver St John, created Viscount Grandison on 3 January 1612. Grandison had no issue, and Villier's half-brother, Buckingham, arranged for Villiers and his sons to inherit the Grandison title. Villier's eldest son William Villiers, who succeeded as 2nd Viscount Grandison in 1630, and was father of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II. Villiers's second and third sons, John Villiers and"
"""the English Sappho"". In addition to poems, she wrote eight novels, three plays, feminist treatises, and an autobiographical manuscript that was incomplete at the time of her death. Like her contemporary Mary Wollstonecraft, she championed the rights of women and was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution. She died in poverty at Englefield Cottage, Englefield Green, Surrey, 26 December 1800, aged 44, having survived several years of ill health, and was survived by her daughter, Maria Elizabeth (1774-1818), who was also a published novelist. Administration of her estate was granted to her husband Thomas Robinson from whom she had"
"1826, Robinson married Catherine Chevalier (d. 1860), trader John Kinzie officiating as Justice of the Peace. Chevalier was the granddaughter of the Potawatomi warrier Naunongee (who died in the Battle of Fort Dearborn), specifically of his daughter Chopa (a/k/a ""Marianne"") and her husband Francois Chevalier, all of whom lived in the Calumet/Fox River area. Francois Chevalier became chief of the village near Lake Calumet in southern Cook County, Illinois after his father-in-law's death. Her sister Josette had married Jean Baptiste Beaubien, who had also learned the fur trade from Bailly, and her sister Archange married trader Antoine Ouilmette. Father Stephen"
"for some letters written by the Prince, and through her writings. After her affair with the young Prince of Wales she became famous for her rides in her extravagant carriages and her celebrity–like perception by the public. Mary Robinson, who now lived separately from her husband, went on to have several love affairs, most notably with Banastre Tarleton, a soldier who had recently distinguished himself fighting in the American War of Independence. Prior to their relationship beginning, Robinson had been having an affair with a man named Lord Malden. According to one account, Malden and Tarleton were betting men, and"
"The Virgin's Lover The Virgin's Lover is a historical novel written by British author Philippa Gregory. It belongs to her series of Tudor novels, including ""The Constant Princess"", ""The Other Boleyn Girl"", ""The Boleyn Inheritance"", and ""The Queen's Fool"". The book opens in the autumn of 1558, just after the death of Mary I, and bells are heralding the fact that Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, is now queen. The book is told from four main perspectives: Elizabeth I's; William Cecil's, the queen's main advisor; Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite; and Amy Robsart's, who is Robert Dudley's wife. Robert Dudley returns to"
"and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), who wrote a book about her, ""Mary Anne"". Writings by Mary Anne Clarke include the following: She co-authored with Elizabeth Taylor: With Gwyllym Lloyd Wardle, Francis Wright, and Daniel Wright: For Mary Anne Clarke's works Mary Anne Clarke Mary Anne Clarke (born Mary Anne Thompson; 3 April 1776 – 21 June 1852) was the mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany. Their relationship began in 1803, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the army. Later in 1809, she wrote her memoirs which were published. She was the subject of"
"of the French royal flag to be tendered to the Monarch annually on the anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim. This flag is displayed by the Monarch on a 17th-century French writing table in Windsor Castle. Marlborough's wife was by all accounts a cantankerous woman, though capable of great charm. She had befriended the young Princess Anne and later, when the princess became Queen, the Duchess of Marlborough, as Her Majesty's Mistress of the Robes, exerted great influence over the Queen on both personal and political levels. The relationship between Queen and Duchess later became strained and fraught, and following"
"had an affair with the French king, the product of which was a son born around 1551. The English diplomat Thomas Randolph recorded that the Queen was particularly consoled by Mary Fleming when she was disturbed by the discovery of the French poet Chastelard hiding in her bedchamber. After having ""some grief of mind"" the Queen took Mary to be her ""bedfellow"". During the twelfth day of Christmas pageant in January 1564, Mary Fleming played the part of Queen. On 19 September 1564 William Kirkcaldy of Grange wrote that the Royal Secretary, William Maitland was showing an interest in Mary"
"The Married Virgin The Married Virgin (also known as Frivolous Wives) is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Vera Sisson, Kathleen Kirkham and Rudolph Valentino (credited as Rodolfo di Valentina). During the early part of his career, Valentino was often cast as a villain or ""heavy,"" his part in ""The Married Virgin"" reflects this typecasting. Mary McMillan (Sisson) is the daughter of tycoon John McMillan (Jobson). She is deeply in love with Douglas McKee (Newburg), a promising young lawyer. Mary's dour ""evil stepmother"", Ethel (Kirkham) is carrying on an affair with the diabolical Count Roberto di San Fraccini (Valentino)."
"his anti-imperialist stance that saw him become an outcast just like his hero (McCarthy, 564) cemented his commitment to emulating the Byronic character. Byron's influence is manifest in many authors and artists of the Romantic movement and writers of Gothic fiction during the 19th century. Lord Byron was the model for the title character of ""Glenarvon"" (1816) by Byron's erstwhile lover Lady Caroline Lamb; and for Lord Ruthven in ""The Vampyre"" (1819) by Byron's personal physician, John William Polidori. Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1831), Edmond Dantes from Alexandre Dumas' ""The Count of Monte Cristo"""
"of 15,000 soldiers in Scotland, to seize the throne for James Francis Edward. Mary refused to part with James Francis Edward, and the rising failed. Mary's regency ceased with her son's reaching of the age of 16. Having wished to become a nun in her youth, Queen Mary sought refuge from the stresses of exile at the Convent of the Visitations, Chaillot, near Paris, where she befriended Louis XIV's penitent mistress, Louise de La Vallière. There, Mary stayed with her daughter for long periods almost every summer. It was here, too, in 1711, that Queen Mary found out that, as"
"Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon Constance Gwladys Robinson, Marchioness of Ripon (22 April 1859 – 28 October 1917), was a British patron of the arts. She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and Diaghilev. Lady Ripon was born in 1859 to Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea and his wife, Elizabeth, a writer and notable convert to Catholicism. Lady Ripon married St George Lowther, 4th Earl of Lonsdale, and"
"Mary Fiennes (lady-in-waiting) Mary Fiennes (1495–1531) was an English noblewoman and the wife of Sir Henry Norris who was executed for treason as one of the alleged lovers of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII of England. Mary lived for six years at the French court as a Maid of Honour to queens consort, Mary Tudor and Claude of France, queen consort of Francis I of France. Mary was born at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex in 1495, the only daughter of Sir Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre and Anne Bourchier. She had two younger brothers,"
"Horse-Shoe Robinson Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency is an 1835 novel by John P. Kennedy that was a popular seller in its day. The novel was Kennedy's second, and proved to be his most popular. It is a work of historical romance of the American Revolution, set in the western mountain areas of the Carolinas and Virginia, culminating at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The primary characters of the novel include Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, General Charles Cornwallis, Horseshoe Robinson (so named because he was originally a blacksmith), Mary Musgrove and her lover John Ramsay, Henry and"
"the Hon. Francis Villiers, and talking affectedly, to the irritation of the duchess, who is losing. Antoine Hamilton, a friend of the rejected de Gramont, wrote that she subjected her lovers to soporific talk. By her husband Jane had a daughter, Jane, baptised 21 November 1661. Called Jenny, she eventually married Charles May, nephew of Baptist May, in 1711. She died in 1740. In 1678 her mother, with Elizabeth, Lady Harvey, planned for Jenny to become the mistress of Charles II, but it came to nothing. At around this time Henry Gascar made a mezzotint portrait of Jenny. Jane's younger"
"most famous include Lord Byron, John F. Kennedy, Errol Flynn, Warren Beatty, Hugh Hefner, Wilt Chamberlain, Gene Simmons, Howard Hughes, and the historical Giacomo Casanova (1725–98). Others include Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Steve McQueen. Famous historical fictional seducers include Don Juan, who first appeared in the 17th century, the fictional Vicomte de Valmont from Choderlos de Laclos's 18th-century novel ""Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)"", and Lothario from Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play ""The Fair Penitent"". More recent fictional characters who can be considered womanizers include Tony Soprano, James Bond, Chuck Bass, James T. Kirk, Tony Stark, Glenn Quagmire,"
"Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland ( – 9 October 1709), more often known by her maiden name Barbara Villiers or her title of Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled. Her influence was so great that she has been referred to as ""The Uncrowned Queen"". Barbara was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely."