![]() According to Ashmole, who may have derived his information from the lady herself, Nell Gwyn was born on Saturday, 2 February 1650, at six o'clock in the morning. We owe this piece of good fortune to the antiquarian and astrologer Elias Ashmole, who cast the horoscope bearing her name now preserved at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Remarkably for one of her upbringing and lowly early station in life, we not only have an exact date of birth for Nell Gwyn, but a time too. ![]() In Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, Beauclerk explains how Gwyn's upbringing - learning how to entertain and charm the men around her while serving rum to customers - helped her later woo the king. Albans, when Gwyn started out as a child of the streets and the daughter of a madame. Beauclerk has written the story of their 17-year affair, and how it came to be that their son became the duke of St. Licentiousness triumphed over repression, and freethinking and cynicism over faith.Ĭharles Beauclerk is a direct descendent of Charles II –- and one of history's most famous mistresses, Nell Gwyn. ![]() The return of Charles II in 1660 upended the cramped, rigidly controlled world of Oliver Cromwell and his Puritans. England's Restoration did more than simply restore a king to his throne. ![]()
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