Robert Fielding
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Robert Fielding was an English bigamist and rake in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He was known as a handsome womanizer at the royal court of King Charles II, where he was given the nicknames
Beau Fielding
Beau Fielding, proposing to Mary Wadsworth
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps the most notorious of the many mistresses of King Charles II of Engl
Robert Fielding
…King Charles II, where he was given the nicknames "Beau" and "Handsome" Fielding, and later became the bigamous husband of the King's former mistress, Barbara Villiers, the first Duchess of Cleveland. Fielding was born in Solihull, Warwickshire, to George Fielding, a kinsman of the Earl of Denbigh. There is no record…
Portrait attributed to John Greenhill. Dated to no later than 1676.
Barbara Palmer's lack of fortune limited her marriage prospects
Portrait by Sir Peter Lely (c. 1666)
Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, circa 1705, by Sir Godfrey Kneller