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Barbara Palmer, I duchessa di Cleveland, contessa di Castlemaine, nota anche come lady Castlemaine (Londra, 27 novembre 1640 – Chiswick, 9 ottobre 1709), era una cortigiana inglese, forse la più famosa fra le amanti di re Carlo II d'Inghilterra, da cui ebbe cinque figli, tutti riconosciuti e successivamente nobilitati.
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (née Barbara Villiers / ˈ v ɪ l ər z / VIL-ərz; 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children ...
27 nov 2023 · Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. George Villiers wasn’t the only Villiers member to have a close relationship with King Charles II. As the only child of the 1st Duke of Buckingham’s half-nephew, Barbara Palmer was perhaps the most prominent mistress of the ruling monarch.
King Charles II of England had a bevy of mistresses, but none of them were nearly as notorious as Barbara Palmer. Bawdy, babely, and super bad-tempered, Palmer wielded enough power to earn herself the nickname “The Uncrowned Queen" though, to be fair, other people called her “the curse of the nation.”
Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland. The favourite mistress of Charles II during the 1660s, Barbara Villiers was a dominant presence both at court and in the public's imagination. She married Roger Palmer, later the Earl of Castlemaine, in 1659, and met Charles soon after.
Barbara Villiers, dutchess of Cleveland, was sole daughter and heir of William viscount Grandison, and wife to Roger Palmer, esq. afterwards created earl of Castlemaine. Her person was to the last degree beautiful; but she was, in the same degree, rapacious, prodigal, and revengeful.
Fu amante di Carlo II d'Inghilterra dal 1660 al 1673. Nata da Guglielmo Villiers nel 1641, sposò nel 1659 Ruggiero Palmer. La sua intimità con Carlo data almeno dall'entrata del re in Londra, il 29 maggio 1660.
