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Lucy’s surname has been recorded as Walter or Walters, Waters, and, Barlow or Barlo (the alias she used occasionally) by contemporaries and scholars over the years, but here I have referred to her by the assumed correct name of Walter. Lucy was born into a Welsh middling-gentry family around 1630 and lived in Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire.
Lucy Walter was born into Welsh gentry as the daughter of William Walter and his wife Elizabeth Prothero. She was born somewhere around 1930 at her family's home in Roch Castle near Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales. She had two brothers, Richard and Justus. She did not receive any formal education but learned etiquette .
At the time of the Exclusion Bill agitation (1679-81) the story that Charles had married Lucy Walter and that, therefore, Monmouth was the rightful heir to the throne was put out and widely credited. Lucy herself died in Paris in 1658. Her elder brother, RICHARD WALTER, was sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1657. He was succeeded in the Roch estates ...
3 de jul. de 2016 · Lucy Walter, born to landowner Richard Walter and the well bred Elizabeth Protheroe at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire in 1630, was a wild child of the sea shore and the Welsh countryside, adored by her father. She had two brothers, Richard and the younger, Justus. Who could foresee that this wild Welsh maid was destined to become a dangerous woman?
During Charles’ absences, Lucy had relationships with other men, including an Irish nobleman Theobald Taaffe, 2nd Viscount Taaffe who is likely the father of Lucy Walter’s second child Mary, born in Paris in 1651. Charles ended his affair with Lucy in 1651 but Lucy refused to accept this and even claimed that she was married to him.
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 ...
Lucy Walter, also known as Mrs. Barlow and sometimes incorrectly as Lucy Walters or Lucy Waters, had gone to The Hague in 1644 and been a colonel's mistress there before becoming the famed mistress of England's King Charles II between 1648 and 1650. In 1649, she gave birth to Charles' illegitimate son, James.
