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Palmer [née Villiers], Barbara (1641-1709), Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland
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1641-1709
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Daughter of the 2nd Viscount Grandison, married Roger Palmer, 1659, later Earl of Castlemaine. Barbara Palmer was one of the loveliest ladies of the Court (so Pepys thought), but she was also one of the most promiscuous. She was mistress to the King, c 1659 to 1670, in which year she had herself created Duchess of Cleveland; she bore the King five children.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography