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unusual facts about Mistresses



Alphonse Royer

Royer and Gautier and their mistresses were also frequent visitors to Heine's summer house in Montmorency.

Bell Town, Tennessee

Folk history has it that the traditional residents are descendants of the slaves of Middle Tennessee ironmaster Montgomery Bell; as Bell was widely reputed to have had several slave mistresses, many inhabitants claim descent from Bell via these women.

Cliff Barnes

Throughout the series Cliff had a reputation for being cheap and naive in contrast to J.R. Whereas J.R. always dined in fine restaurants, wore a stylish Stetson, lived on Southfork and lavished his mistresses with generosity; Cliff often preferred take-out Chinese cuisine, wore cheap suits, lived in a condominium and assumed his romantic interests would clean his home.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

The Marchioness' sister was made Baroness of Sorocaba and eventually she joined the extensive roll of royal mistresses, and bore a child with him.

HMY Fubbs

The yacht's name came from the King's pet name for one of his mistresses, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth.

In Good King Charles's Golden Days

A discussion play, the issues of nature, power and leadership are debated between King Charles II ('Mr Rowley'), Isaac Newton, George Fox and the artist Godfrey Kneller, with interventions by three of the king's mistresses (Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland; Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth; and Nell Gwynn) and his queen, Catherine of Braganza.

Jes Macallan

In 2012 she landed a series regular leading role on the ABC drama series Mistresses, along with Alyssa Milano, Rochelle Aytes and Yunjin Kim, about the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships.

Katy Carmichael

2009 saw a rise in Carmichael's acting status, with her starring in series 4 of the hit school drama Waterloo Road as headteacher Rachel Mason's (Eva Pope) sister, Melissa Ryan, and a role in Mistresses as the mysterious Elaine Thompson.

Kiernozia

The village has a population of 930 and is mostly known for being the birthplace (and burial place) of Marie Walewska (née Łączyńska), one of the mistresses of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Mitsou

She also joined the cast of L’Enfant Prodige, a movie about pianist André Mathieu, in which she played Vivianne Jobin, one of Mathieu's mistresses.

Molly Weir

With Helena Gloag she played the Kerr sisters, the sewing mistresses of Marcia Blaine School for Girls.

Nesle

His grandson, Louis de Mailly, had five daughters, of whom four (the Countess of Mailly, the Duchess of Lauragais, the Countess of Vintimille, and the Marquise de la Tournelle, afterwards the Duchess of Châteauroux) were successively, or simultaneously, mistresses of Louis XV.

St. James's Park

Charles II opened the park to the public, as well as using the area to entertain guests and mistresses, such as Nell Gwyn.

Sudbury Hall

The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.

The History of the Nun

It contains an introduction which may suggest a romantic affair between the author and Hortense Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin, one of the mistresses of Charles II and "adventuresses" of the 17th century.

Vannozza dei Cattanei

Vannozza dei Cattanei (Giovanna de Candia, contessa dei Cattanei; 13 July 1442 – 24 November 1518) was an Italian noblewoman from the House of Candia, who was one of the many mistresses of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, future Pope Alexander VI.

William Marsters

William Marsters (born Richard Masters) (6 November 1831 – 22 May 1899) was an English adventurer from Walcote, Leicestershire who settled on Palmerston Island in the Cook Islands on 8 July 1863, with his Polynesian wife and two Polynesian mistresses.


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