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Nell Gwyn (Gwynne)

“Pray good people be civil, I am the Protestant whore” was Nell Gwyn’s cheeky retort to the masses pushing around her coach in the mistaken belief that it was that of the Duchess of Portsmouth, the Catholic Louise de Keroualle.

‘Pretty, witty Nell’ was perhaps the best known and remembered mistress of King Charles II.

She was one of many (there were 13 in all during his lifetime), but she was the least ‘greedy’ of them all. When he lay dying he begged his heir, the Duke of York, “not to let poor Nellie starve”.

In her early teens, Nell Gwyn was engaged to sell oranges at the King’s Theatre. Her natural wit and complete lack of self-consciousness caught the eye of the actor Charles Hart and others, and Dryden wrote plays to exploit her talents as a comic actress.

She became Charles Hart’s mistress, she called him Charles the First, and was then passed to Charles Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, whom she dubbed Charles the Second, and later the King, calling him her Charles the Third.

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Moments of Delight

Nell Gwynn

by Jessica Swale

Q2 Players at the National Archives, Kew until 30^th October

Review by Celia Bard

I admit to feeling of anticipation on entering the National Archive Centre for it was the first time of seeing Q2 Players in their theatre at Kew. I was also keen to see dramatist Jessica Swale’s treatment of the legendary Renaissance actress, Nell Gwynn. The play is set in the 1660’s, historically an interesting time in England. After almost two decades of revolution, war and theatrical suppression, monarchy and theatre have been restored. The play chronicles the meteoric rise of Nell Gwynn from a humble orange seller to the favourite mistress of King Charles II.

The set design by Junis Olmscheid succeeded in creating the feel of an actors’ company during Renaissance times and also that of a royal court. The set consisted of a proscenium arch, plush red drapes and sashes, carefully placed screen and two splendid Royal looking chairs permanently placed downstage left, a gentle reminder that K

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Nell Gwyn

English royal mistress and celebrity (1650–1687)

For other uses, see Nell Gwyn (disambiguation).

Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a longtime mistress of King Charles II of England (c. April 1668 – 6 February 1685).

Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Pepys, she has been regarded as a living embodiment of the spirit of Restoration England, and has come to be considered a folk heroine, with a story echoing the rags-to-royalty tale of Cinderella. Gwyn had two sons by King Charles: Charles Beauclerk (1670–1726) and James Beauclerk (1671–1680). Charles Beauclerk was created Earl of Burford and Duke of St. Albans; Murray de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St. Albans is her descendant, and the current holder of the duchy.

Early life

The details of Gwyn's background are somewhat obscure. A horoscope in the Ashm