List of English royal mistresses

As mistress (French: maîtresse = mistress, mistress) referred to a publicly known as such a beloved princes, high-ranking nobles or important official. In social relations, where marriages were primarily closed under political and material aspects, men often had a concubine ( " concubine " ), which they, because that would have been impossible anyway, not trying to keep it a secret, but "half" legitimized. Mostly, they had to give them a closer emotional and mental relationship as their wife. Some royal mistresses had not insignificant political influence. The term was commonly used as a synonym for " lover ", but is outdated in this sense today. A now also become historically synonymous is the favorite, but this term refers probably a less official status as the mistress.

List of mistresses

  • Mistress
  • List ( people)
  • English History
Rosamund Clifford Henry II of England Catherine Montagu, Countess of Salisbury Edward III of England Alice Perrers Jane Shore Lucy Walter Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland Moll Davis Nell Gwyn Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester James II of England Arabella Churchill (royal mistress) Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney Amalie von Wallmoden, Countess of Yarmouth Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk Hannah Lightfoot Mary Robinson (poet) Anna Maria Crouch Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough Isabella Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford Dorothea Jordan Lady Randolph Churchill Valerie, Lady Meux Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick Agnes Keyser Catherine Walters Alice Keppel Freda Dudley Ward Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
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