Lisa Hilton

Bullying on Twitter is nothing compared with what Charles II’s mistresses endured

The pamphlets that circulated about ‘the royal whores’ at the Restoration court were breathtakingly vicious and obscene

Portrait of Hortense Mancini by Pierre Mignard (Alamy) 
issue 30 May 2020
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