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3 unusual facts about Roger Palmer


Roger Palmer

Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine (1634–1705), English courtier, diplomat and MP, 1660

Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine

Roger was a quiet, studious, bookish man and a devout Roman Catholic while his wife was an accomplished sexual athlete and a woman of whom her later lover, Charles II himself, is recorded by Pepys on 15 May 1663 as having claimed that "she hath all the tricks of Aretin that are to be practised to give pleasure".

UK Wolf Conservation Trust

Roger Palmer, a businessman and founder of the UKWCT, visited Alaska in the 1970s.


Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet

In 1686, Lord Castlemaine, James's ambassador to Rome, renewed the application, while James urged it forcibly on Ferdinando d'Adda, the papal nuncio in London.


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