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The Royal Mistresses Series

Frances Stewart – The unrequited love of King Charles II

September 21, 2022 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

King Charles II ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death in 1685. Before Charles’ reign, there had been the English Civil War, followed by a period called The Interregnum, an 11-year period of rule by a largely Puritan government without a monarch. Due to this [read more]

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Marie Mancini – Dust and Ashes (Part four)

December 6, 2020 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Read part three here. Fearing for her life, Marie and her sister Hortense left Rome with only a few possessions, so they did not arouse suspicions. Marie took a small sum of money, some diamonds from her husband whom she still loved despite their terrible problems, and she took the pearls which King Louis XIV [read more]

Arabella Churchill
The Royal Mistresses Series

Arabella Churchill – “Nothing but skin and bones”

October 28, 2020 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Arabella Churchill is a little-known figure in English history; despite her decade-long relationship with James, Duke of York who later became King James II of England. Perhaps attentions were focused on the King at the time, King Charles II, who was James’ brother and a notorious womaniser. With King Charles flaunting his mistresses and showering [read more]

Moll Davis
The Royal Mistresses Series

Moll Davis – Common actress to royal mistress

October 4, 2020 Amy Eloise Kelly 3

Mary Davis, better known as Moll, was supposedly born in the year 1648 in London. Her background and even the identities of her parents are a bit of a mystery, but it seems she was an illegitimate child of Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Berkshire and an unknown woman. Moll rose to fame as an [read more]

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Diana Princess of Wales

How King Charles II’s line made it back into the Royal Family

May 7, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

The merry monarch King Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, famously fathered many children. However, his Queen Catherine of Braganza suffered three miscarriages, and they had no surviving legitimate issue. So how did King Charles II’s line make it back into the British Royal Family? Coincidentally, both of King Charles III’s two wives were [read more]




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