If the king thought he’d found the perfect mistress, he was SO wrong. Lucy Walter wasn’t as innocent as she looked.
La Paiva’s husband couldn’t bring himself to bury her when she died. Instead, he injected her with embalming fluid, preserving her beauty.
Maneater, mistress, "uncrowned queen": Barbara Palmer was King Charles II's favorite courtesan—until it all came crashing down.
For most of recorded history, marriage was all business.Physical and emotional fulfillment could be happy accidents, but they were certainly not prerequisites for wedlock. For such things, a man (and it was mostly men, sorry)...
History has never been kind royal mistresses—but nobody suffered like the beautiful Hedvig Taube, the mistress of King Frederick I.
In her day she was a fashion icon and royal mistress, but it was her influence on one of France's greatest writers where she made her biggest mark.
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