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Linda Porter: Mistresses of Charles II
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Length:
78 minutes
Released:
Mar 22, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
We speak to the historian Dr Linda Porter about some of the most notable mistresses of Charles II (Lucy Walter, Barbara Villiers, Frances Stuart, Nell Gwynn, Hortense Mancini), discussing why we know so much about them, what they tell us about Charles and how this affected his wife and queen, Catherine of Braganza.
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Mar 22, 2024
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