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Musical Moll Davis (1640–c.1721) by Peter Lely (1618–1680).
Actress and Mistress of Charles II.
Late as I've been pottering in the garden b/c it's such a gloriously sunny day here in Derbyshire...
HEAR YE! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday! This week's topic is:
❄️⛈️☀️*Weather events in the Stuart-era*☀️⛈️❄️
Jacob Adriaensz. Bellevois, (1621 – 1676), 'Ships on a Stormy Sea'.
Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday!
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, son of James II (VII) & Arabella Churchill, was decapitated by a cannonball #OTD 12 June 1734.
This week's theme:
💀😱😖Grisly Stuart Ends😖😱💀
#KeepItStuart
@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @MuseumCromwell @ColemanDennehy @CryssaBazos @RoyalStuartSoc @EnglishCivilWar #StuartsSaturday!👑 #KeepItStuart
Wenceslaus Hollar's heroic depiction of Charles I. 1644.
Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday! Today's theme is the life of NELL GWYNN, a Restoration actress and royal mistress, who died #OTD 14 November 1687 (b. 1650). Portrait of Nell Gwyn, attributed to Simon Verelst, circa 1670. #KeepItStuart #17thCentury #SexyStuarts
@17thCenturyLady @jdmccafferty @cheapsellotape @swiftstory @BridMcGrath @ColemanDennehy @DrRJWarren @Jo_History @LeandadeLisle @RestorationHat @MStuart3462 #StuartsSaturday! Mary Frith, alias ‘Moll Cutpurse’, not a beauty, but a notorious criminal of the London underworld.
Hear ye! 'Tis time for #StuartsSaturday!
**Dangerous Beauties**
One dangerous beauty was Anna Maria Talbot (née Brudenell), Countess of Shrewsbury (1642–1702). Her adulterous liaison with 2nd Duke of Buckingham led to a duel in which her husband, Francis, was killed. 🤺⚔💔