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4 days ago · The duke's proud widow, Catherine Darnley, the natural daughter of James II. by Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, lived here after his death.
1 day ago · My lord [Thomas Howard] leading me about the house made no scruple of shewing me all the hiding-places for the popish priests, and where they said Mass.' After the duke's death the duchess who had married again, sold the house to Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, former mistress of James II when Duke of York.
3 days ago · Serial killer Letby, who has now been found guilty of the attempted murder of Child K, is believed to be housed in the notorious Bronzefield prison, a Category A facility previously inhabited...
3 days ago · Catherine the Great (1729-1796), the formidable Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, was not only a powerful and influential ruler but also a woman with a refined taste for the finer things in...
4 days ago · The Countess famously wore the Rosse family diamond and emerald parure, comprising a tiara, necklace and earrings, to the wedding ball (her oyster-coloured silk brocade coat was also reportedly deemed an unusual choice for the mother of the groom).
2 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine ( French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen...
3 days ago · Accordingly, The Lord Boston presented to the House a Bill, intituled, An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Henry Knight Esquire, with Catherine Lynch his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
