Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (died 1709)

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

English royal mistress (1640–1709)

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children, all of them acknowledged and subsequently…