Professor Suzannah Lipscomb explores how Nell Gwyn became an 'It girl' - one of England's first celebrities and cherished folk heroine - with Professor Laura Engel and Charles Beauclerk, Earl of ...

Charles II born 29/5 1630. Nell Gwynne born 2/2 1650. Began selling oranges outside Drury Lane Theatre, Royal Playhouse opened 1663 and at about the age of fourteen became actress. In 1664 Nell ...

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 ...

Reveling in the beauty of Antarctica aboard Quark UltramarineNow that I was finally here among glaciers as big as warehouses, colonies of penguins and curious whales, I could see why so..