England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
The Duchess of Portsmouth.
Burnet, ed. Oxford, , vol. i., p. 585. . | |
This year the king declared a new mistress, and | |
105 | made her duchess of Portsmouth. She had been maid of honour to madame, the king's sister, and had come over with her to Dover, where the king had expressed such a regard to her that the duke of Buckingham, who hated the duchess of Cleveland, intended to put her on the king. He told him that it was a decent piece of tenderness for his sister to take care of her servants. . .That duke assured the king of France that he could never reckon himself sure of the king but by giving him a mistress that should be true to his interests. . . The king divided himself between her and Mistress Gwynne, and had no other avowed amour. |