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Elizabeth Villiers. Elizabeth Hamilton. Elizabeth Hamilton, Contessa di Orkney ( 1657 – 19 aprile 1733 ), fu l'amante riconosciuta di Guglielmo III & II, Re d'Inghilterra e Scozia, dal 1680 fino al 1695. Fu una dama di compagnia di sua moglie e co-regnante, la Regina Maria II .
Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (née Villiers; 1657 – 19 April 1733) was an English courtier from the Villiers family and the reputed mistress of William III, King of England and Scotland, from 1680 until 1695.
Unlike her cousin Barbara Castlemaine, Elizabeth was no beauty; a plain girl nicknamed Squinting Betty on account of a cast in one eye. But like her sisters she was intelligent, witty and had a generous helping of good old fashioned Villiers ambition.
The 1st Earl of Jersey's sister, Elizabeth Villiers († 1733), was the presumed mistress of King William III of England from 1680 until 1695. Thomas Villiers († 1786), the second son of the 2nd Earl of Jersey, was created Baron Hyde and Earl of Clarendon in 1776.
Born around 1657, Elizabeth Villiers was the daughter of Sir Edward Villiers and Lady Frances Villiers , who, as governess to the princesses Mary (II) and Anne , secured a place for her children in Mary's household.
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Elizabeth was born in 1657, one of the eight children of Colonel Sir Edward Villiers, an English politician and military officer from the powerful Villiers family, and Frances Howard, daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
