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@17thCenturyLady It's always him, for me: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans. Charles It's and Nell Gwyn's lad. #StuartsSaturday
@17thCenturyLady Two marriage portraits, Van Dyck school & by Lely. 1. Paul, 2nd Viscount Bayning with wife Penelope. 2. Daughter Anne was 1st wife of Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford. When he was confined to the Tower as a Royalist spy, devoted Anne joined him & died there. #StuartsSaturday
@17thCenturyLady @1642Author @CryssaBazos @HatsPeriod @LizziePepys @RoyalStuartSoc @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @EMhistblog @stuartsonline Edward Matthew Ward, RA, 1854. Charles II in St James's Park and Nell Gwyn I her back garden, chatting over the wall of the house he gave her in Piccadilly. Victoria & Albert Museum.
@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @Jo_History @PartyLike1660 @louisxivtoday @LloydLlewJ @ARebelHand @RestorationHat @Warwalks @cheapsellotape In 1683, on his 13th birthday, Charles Beauclerk meets his cousin, Louis XIV. "Mai. Mardi 8, à Versailles. On présenta au roi le duc de Saint Alban fils du roi d'Angleterre et de mademoiselle Gouin comédienne . . . sa mère a beaucoup meubles magnifiques mais peu de revenu."