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Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as Lucy Barlow, was the first mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth. During the Exclusion Crisis , a Protestant faction wanted to make her son heir to the throne, fuelled by the rumour that the king might have married Lucy, a claim which he denied.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Lucy Walter was the mistress of the British king Charles II and mother of James Scott, duke of Monmouth. Her family, the Walters, were Welsh of good standing who declared for King Charles I during the Civil War. Roch Castle having been captured and burned by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, Lucy
8 de mar. de 2017 · While Charles and his agents often found it difficult to secure the obedience of his subjects and of other members of the royal family, Lucy Walter proved to be particularly troublesome in this regard. Lucy’s actions highlight at once the resourcefulness, relative freedom, and precarious position of exiles.
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 ...
29 de mar. de 2015 · Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow was a mistress of King Charles II but also mother to James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. Born in 1630 to William Walter and Elizabeth Protheroe at Roch Castle, Lucy’s ...
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.
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. Little is known about Lucy Walter. She was probably born in 1630; her father, William Walter, inherited Roch Castle in
