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The term originally meant a courtier, a person who attends the court of a monarch or other powerful person. Englands mistress by kate williams penguin books australia. This is an update of a previous post by sharon rickson. Muse and mother, wife and mistress, celebrity and villain, victim and survivor. Sep 28, 2012 i could not trace her beyond her first seducer, and there was every reason to fear that she had removed from him only to sink deeper in a life of sin. Fair rosamund, an imaginary portrait of rosamund clifford, the most famous mistress of king henry ii of england, by dante gabriel rossetti in the english court, a royal mistress was a woman who was the lover of the king. Best books about mistresses meet your next favorite book. She was the most famous woman in england the beautiful model for society painters joshua reynolds and george romney, an icon of fashion, the wife of an ambassador, and the mistress of naval hero horatio nelson.
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