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8 de mar. de 2017 · In 1648 the young Welsh gentlewoman Lucy Walter met the soon-to-be Charles II at The Hague, beginning a relationship—by turns passionate, fraught, scandalous and distant—that would last for the next ten years.
23 de dez. de 2016 · Lucy Walter, Royal Mistress. Lucy Walter was one of the first of many mistresses of King Charles II of England. She came from a moderately well-to-do family and was the king’s mistress for a short time while he was in exile on the continent during the English Civil War. Charles was the acknowledged father of Lucy’s son James, Duke of ...
Lucy Walter birthed the prince’s son in 1649, naming him James. Details of Walter's life right after birth remain a bit unclear. Her baby may have been sent away to a wet nurse for some time, but eventually the teen mother went to live with her mother in law, the Queen , in Paris.
Biografie. Lucy Walter werd geboren als de dochter van William Walter en Elizabeth Plotheroe en ze groeide samen met haar broers in Roch Castle op. In 1638 verhuisde het gezin naar Londen en onderhield het contact met het koninklijk hof. Twee jaar later vertrok William Walter weer naar Wales waardoor zijn gezin financiële moeilijkheden kreeg.
12 de jan. de 2023 · Lucy Walter (c. 1630-1658), that "brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature" (as contemporary writer John Evelyn dubbed her) was an English courtesan in the mid-17th century. She became the mistress of the vaguely noble Algernon Sidney at the age of 17.
6 de mar. de 2013 · Lucy, born around 1630, was considered to be a stunningly beautiful, but quite vapid, woman. The image that has comes down to us over the centuries is that of a silly woman who was passed from man to man, bearing children as she went along, losing everything and ultimately dying in poverty. This rather fanciful depiction is said to be of Lucy ...
Lucy Walter was the daughter of William Walter of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke, and Mr. S. Steinman, in his “Althorp Memoirs” (privately printed, 1869), sets out her pedigree, which is a good one. Roch Castle was taken and burnt by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, and Lucy was in London in 1648, where she made the acquaintance of Colonel ...
