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James Beauclerk (1671–1680) Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a long-time mistress of ...
- Actress
- 14 November 1687 (aged 37), Pall Mall, London, England
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- Charles II of England
Mar 11, 2024 · Nell Gwyn (born Feb. 2, 1650, London, Eng.—died Nov. 14, 1687, London) was an English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nell survived Charles by only two years and was only in her thirties when she died. She became a legend, the only royal mistress in English history to provoke popular affection. “She would not”, she told a hopeful suitor in her colourful language that was part of her charm, “lay a dog where a deer laid”!
Mar 6, 2021 · Nell Gywn: the orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England. From penniless orange seller to wealthy mistress of Charles II, Nell Gwyn’s wit and charm endeared her as a darling of society and a symbol of a more fun-loving and lavish England. Hers is story of rags to riches and back again...
- Lauren Good
Nov 7, 2018 · by Ray Setterfield. November 14, 1687 — King Charles II consorted with a long line of mistresses and had 13 children by them. Nell Gwyn, who died on this day, is the most famous of the mistresses and became a legend, the only royal mistress in English history to be warmly regarded by the people.
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Dec 21, 2005 · Charles Beauclerk is a direct descendent of Charles II –- and one of history's most famous mistresses, Nell Gwyn. Beauclerk has written the story of their 17-year affair, and how it came to be...
Nov 27, 2022 · Nell was fifteen, a regular actress in the King’s House and on the rise as a comic actress, when all of this was halted by the arrival of the plague in London. Once they reopened in the summer of the following year, the Great Fire of London occurred. It seemed that London was suffering a string of tragedies.