Walter, Lucy

Walter, Lucy

▪ mistress of Charles II
born 1630?, Roch Castle, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
died , September/October 1658, Paris

      Her family, the Walters, were Welsh of good standing who declared for King Charles I during the Civil War. Roch Castle having been captured and burned by the Parliamentary forces in 1644, Lucy Walter found shelter first in London and then at The Hague. There, in 1648, she met the future king, possibly renewing an earlier acquaintance. There is little reason for believing the story that she was his first mistress; it is certain that he was not her first lover. The intimacy between him and this “brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature,” as the diarist John Evelyn called her, who chose to be known as Mrs. Barlow (Barlo), lasted with intervals until the autumn of 1651, and Charles claimed the paternity of a child born in 1649, whom he subsequently created duke of Monmouth. A daughter, Mary (b. 1651), of whom the reputed father was Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, married William Sarsfield, brother of Patrick Sarsfield, earl of Lucan. On the termination of her liaison with Charles II, Lucy Walter abandoned herself to a life of promiscuity, which may have resulted in her premature death.

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