We’re putting it out there that Nottinghamshire rivals any other English county in terms of natural beauty. That may be a bit of a controversial statement - particularly for our neighbours in ...

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 ...

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 ...

We're travelling back to 17th century England to delve into a celebrity of the Restoration era, one of the first actresses in comedy and a mistress to King Charles II all rolled into one!

Nell Gwyn and King Charles II fall in love after meeting at a fox hunt. Nell soon learns the jealous Duchess of Portsmouth is a spy and conspiring with the Duke of Buckingham to place Charles at ...

In the evening, with two hours till bedtime, you settle down to read … what? It might be a novel, a best-selling work of nonfiction or even — bless you! — a collection of poems. But it almost ...

A pleasing exception is little Nell Gwynn, capricious blossom of the London gutters, mistress of light-headed Charles II. England has always loved the orange girl and actress of old Drury.

She favored tea and the Baroque and was liked despite strong anti-Catholic feeling. Charles II resisted the political pressure to divorce her.

The year is 1660. The Puritans have run away with their drab grey tails between their legs and Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, French and sexy. On Drury Lane, a ...

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.

As the bailiffs are reminiscing on the glory that was Gwyn, the flashback takes up the adventures of a colorful hussy who captured the fancy of King Charles II in an English music hall, becoming ...