How did a working class illiterate woman become King Charles II's favourite mistress? Nell Gwyn was an incredibly talented comedy actor who came from a working class background, and was part of a ...

follows the eponymous heroine Nell Gwynn - one of the first female actresses in Britain, as well as one of Charles II’s mistresses. Not only is the play a hilarious, raunchy comedy, it is a ...

The Nell Gwyn Stakes of 1975 turned out to be the launchpad to a stellar racing career for Rose Bowl, who was trained by Fulke Johnson Houghton for Jane Engelhard, widow of the wealthy industrialist ...

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess ...

Viewed as sexual objects, at risk from lovers’ caprices and the encroachment of age, these characters – including the infamous Nell Gwyn and ... under Charles II. Anna Chancellor’s ...

We're travelling back to 17th century England with one of the first actresses in comedy and a mistress to King Charles II, Nell Gwyn.