Zanzoun impressed when winning the Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket on Tuesday. However, she is not entered in the Betfred 1,000 Guineas next month, although she does have entries in the ...

Zanzoun put herself in the Classic equation with a stylish display in the Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket.

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 ...

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 ...

Zanzoun put herself in the Classic equation with a stylish display in the Lanwades Stud Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket.

When Charles II died suddenly in 1685, Nell Gwyn’s world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to “apoplexy,” Biographer Bax ...

As a result, Nell Gwyn - born 375 years ago this month - went from being a humble orange seller to a celebrated actress and Charles II's most enduring and famous mistress.

One summer’s morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the ...

Mike Butcher as King Charles also gives a first-rate performance as the merry monarch, unable to keep his hands off his paramours but able to step up where necessary. Dan Clucas as Nell’s mentor ...

Dan Clucas as Nell’s mentor Charles Hart and Clive Webb as Thomas Killigrew, the theatre company’s principal, throw themselves wholeheartedly into their roles.

What we know of Nell Gwyn is rather limited, and such sparse facts as have come down to us are principally found in Pepys and in the plays and gossip of the times of Charles II.

Nell may have worked there either serving drinks to clients or as a prostitute herself but eventually, she began selling oranges at the Drury Lane Theatre where she caught the attention of Charles ...