Lucy
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"Mrs. Barlow"
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Walter
Born 1630
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Daughter of
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Mother of
James Scott and Mary Sarsfield [add child]
Died 1658
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About Lucy Walter
Lucy Walter (c. 1630-1658), that "brown, beautiful, bold but insipid creature" (as contemporary writer John Evelyn dubbed her) was an English courtesan in the mid-17th century.
She became the mistress of the vaguely noble Algernon Sidney at the age of 17. Through him, she met and began an affair with his brother Robert, and, through Robert, Charles II.
Lucy Walter, or "Mrs. Barlow" as she called herself, was not the first lover of Charles II - Christabelle Wyndham may have had that honor - but she was mother to his first officially recognized son, the Duke of Monmouth.
Falling on hard times following the end of her liaison with Charles, she died seven years afterward in 1658.
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