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Professor Emeritus of Development Economics. Frances Stewart was Director of ODID from 1993-2003 and Director of the Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) at the department between 2003 and 2010. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.
4 de abr. de 2024 · The daughter of Walter Stuart (or Stewart), a physician in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria when in exile after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1649, Frances Stuart was brought up in France and was sent to England in 1663 to become maid of honour to Catherine of Braganza, queen of Charles II.
Frances Stewart werd in Parijs geboren als de dochter van Walter Stewart, de hofarts van koningin Henriëtta Maria van Frankrijk, een verre verwant van de koninklijke familie. In 1662 werd ze naar Engeland gestuurd om daar te dienen als de hofdame van koningin Catharina van Bragança.
Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (8 July 1647 – 15 October 1702) was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
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10 de fev. de 2023 · When Frances arrived at court, Barbara swiftly took her under her wing. Gramont noted that Barbara: ‘affected to make Miss Stewart her favourite, and invited her to all the entertainments she made for the king; And [. . .] she often kept her to sleep.
In the Westminster Abbey collection, in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries, is a life size (5 feet 8 inches) wax effigy of Frances Teresa (Stuart), Duchess of Richmond and Lennox. Known as 'La Belle Stuart' she was born in 1647, the daughter of Walter Stuart (a distant relative of the royal house of Stuart) and his wife Sophia.
