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Meet their moms (Charles II's Mistresses):    • King Charles II's Mistresses  

Charles II, King of England, Scotland & Ireland from 1660 to 1685 is one of the most notorious lotharios in history. He loved the ladies and took both noble women and commoner actresses to bed, sometimes multiple times a day. And the ladies were certainly up for it. In addition to enjoying the charming sovereign’s company, they also enjoyed the gifts, estates, and noble titles he lavished upon them and their children. Last week we met Charles’s 14 known mistresses. Today we’ll meet the results of all that sensual behavior, the King’s 13 recognized illegitimate children. To his sons he granted Dukedoms and Earldoms and for his daughters he arranged marriages to the wealthiest noble bachelors. The King personally populated a new generation of English peers. But despite his lusty libido, Charles didn’t have a single legitimate child to inherit his throne. When he died and his unpopular brother became King James II many in the nation looked to his eldest illegitimate son as a possible alternative monarch and rebellion ensued. Let’s meet King Charles II’s 13 Illegitimate Children...
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth
Charlotte FitzRoy, Countess of Yarmouth
Charles FitzCharles, Earl of Plymouth
Catherine FitzCharles
Anne Palmer, Countess of Sussex
Charles FitzRoy, Duke of Cleveland
Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Grafton
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland
Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St Albans
James Beauclerk
Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond
Mary Tudor, Countess of Derwentwater

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