Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, suo jure Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster was a longtime mistress to King George I of Great Britain.
Duchess of Kendal, by George S. Stuart
In the English or British court, a royal mistress is a woman who is the lover of a member of the royal family; specifically, the king. She may be taken either before or after his accession to the thro
Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal
…After George's death, she kept a raven she believed to be the dead king. She died, unmarried (unless George I had wedded her), on 10 May 1743. English royal mistress…
Fair Rosamund, an imaginary portrait of Rosamund Clifford, the most famous mistress of King Henry II of England, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rosamund was rumored to have been poisoned by Henry II's wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in some legends.
Edward IV, whose womanising led to several claims concerning precontracted marriages
Mary Boleyn is said to have been so promiscuous she was called the "great prostitute"
This nude may represent either Nell Gwynn, Charles II's most famous mistress or Barbara Villiers as Venus with Cupid, who is about to pull off the last vestige of cloth, covering her genitals, by Peter Lely