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Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as Lucy Barlow, was the first mistress of King Charles II of England and mother of James, Duke of Monmouth. During the Exclusion Crisis, a Protestant faction wanted to make her son heir to the throne, fuelled by the rumour that the king might have married Lucy, a claim which he denied.
Lucy Walter was the mistress of the British king Charles II and mother of James Scott, duke of Monmouth. Her family, the Walters, were Welsh of good standing who declared for King Charles I during the Civil War. Roch Castle having been captured and burned by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, Lucy.
Mar 6, 2013 · One of Charles II’s earliest great passions, Lucy Walter, sometimes Lucy Barlow, a Royalist exile of Welsh ancestry who became his bedfellow (possibly his wife) and then the mother of his son, James, the future doomed Duke of Monmouth.
Mar 29, 2015 · Lucy Walter or Lucy Barlow was a mistress of King Charles II but also mother to James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. Born in 1630 to William Walter and Elizabeth Protheroe at Roch Castle,...
Lucy Walter was born around 1630 at Roch Castle near Haverfordwest, Wales to William Walter and Elizabeth Prothero, from landed gentry families. During the English Civil War, the Walter family supported the royalist forces and in 1644, Roch Castle was captured by the parliamentary forces and burned.
Mar 8, 2017 · In 1648 the young Welsh gentlewoman Lucy Walter met the soon-to-be Charles II at The Hague, beginning a relationship—by turns passionate, fraught, scandalous and distant—that would last for the next ten years. Little is known about Lucy Walter.
Lucy Walter, also known as Mrs. Barlow and sometimes incorrectly as Lucy Walters or Lucy Waters, had gone to The Hague in 1644 and been a colonel's mistress there before becoming the famed mistress of England's King Charles II between 1648 and 1650.
