Barbara Villiers Palmer was a nineteen-year old newlywed when her husband, Roger Palmier and his group of fellow-conspirators sent her to Brussels with a message to the king-in-waiting, Charles Stuart, and a fortune of gold coin sewn into the hem of her dress. Witty and reckless and a renowned beauty, she immediately caught the eye of the much older king, and it was mutual attraction immediately. She became his mistress and held that position for a turbulent decade. The Puritan regime of Cromwell was […]
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Royal Harlot by Susan Holloway Scott