lady-in-waiting
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.
English royal mistress from the Villiers family (1640-1709)
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About Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, 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, all of them acknowledged and subsequently ennobled. Barbara was the subject of many portraits, in particular by court painter Sir Peter Lely.
Everything about Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland →- Occupation
- lady-in-waiting
- Position held
- Lady of the Bedchamber
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- November 27, 1640
- Died
- October 9, 1709