Current Orange Tree boss Tom Littler has definitely ... but she is absolutely superb as Nell Gwynn. It’s a tough role to play: the most famous actress to have ever lived that nobody alive ...

Until, that is, comely, spunky Nell Gwynn (Zoe Brough) comes along, with her quick wit and lewd tongue, catching the monarch’s eye in what she calls “the tit parts”. All competing for fame ...

The most famous today is Nell Gwynne, mistress of King Charles II, who reopened theatres after the dark days of Puritan rule and allowed a new dispensation with women in the starring parts. She stars ...

There was an elder sister, Rose, who married a highwayman and spent time in prison for theft. At thirteen, Nell got a job as an orange girl at the newly opened King’s Theatre in Drury Lane (forerunner ...

She was a Hereford girl who became a Royal mistress. As the life of Charles II becomes a major BBC TV series we look at the colourful life of Nell Gwynne. Nell Gwynne - history UK Nell Gwynne ...

and is buried in the church of St. Martin-in-the-Field Nell Gwynne certainly knew how to live life to the full, packing a career as an orange seller, an actress and a royal mistress into her 37 years.

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 owns the stage whenever she appears and her transformation from orange seller to king’s ... feelgood production if ever there was one. Nell Gwynn runs until Saturday (16) and unsurprisingly ...

The Company of Ten is bringing bawdy historical comedy Nell Gwynn to the Abbey Theatre in St Albans. First staged in 2015 at Shakespeare's Globe, the Olivier-award winning play by Jessica ...

Nell Gwynn is famous in popular history as the humble orange seller who became one of the 17 th century’s most celebrated actresses and high-profile mistress of King Charles II. But what do we know of ...