Nell gwyn Archives - History of Royal Women

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]

Pretty Witty Nell – King Charles II’s mistress

July 10, 2017 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

Eleanor Gwyn was born in February 1650, when her future lover King Charles II of England was already twenty years old. Eleanor or Nell was the daughter of Ellen and Thomas Gwyn, a peasant couple who hailed from a Welsh bloodline. Despite Nell’s fame, there is little available evidence to piece together her early life [read more]