She used Highgate Society maps, flyers and posters to create a costume that dressed an antique mannequin as Nell Gwyn, an actress who became the mistress of King Charles II and was called "pretty ...

The Nell Gwyn Stakes of 1975 turned out to be the launchpad to a stellar racing career for Rose Bowl, who was trained by Fulke Johnson Houghton for Jane Engelhard, widow of the wealthy industrialist ...

How did a working class illiterate woman become King Charles II's favourite mistress? Nell Gwyn was an incredibly talented comedy actor who came from a working class background, and was part of a ...

When Charles II died suddenly in 1685, Nell Gwyn’s world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to “apoplexy,” Biographer Bax ...

As a result, Nell Gwyn - born 375 years ago this month - went from being a humble orange seller to a celebrated actress and Charles II's most enduring and famous mistress.

In the evening, with two hours till bedtime, you settle down to read … what? It might be a novel, a best-selling work of nonfiction or even — bless you! — a collection of poems. But it almost ...

A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury.

Fidelity was not common in Charles’s court. He soon had other mistresses, prominent among them the low-born Nell Gwyn.

King Charles II is believed to have fathered at least 12 illegitimate children and had numerous lovers - but he never produced an heir with his wife, Catherine of Braganza.

What we know of Nell Gwyn is rather limited, and such sparse facts as have come down to us are principally found in Pepys and in the plays and gossip of the times of Charles II.

As the bailiffs are reminiscing on the glory that was Gwyn, the flashback takes up the adventures of a colorful hussy who captured the fancy of King Charles II in an English music hall, becoming ...