The Anglo-Welsh mistress of Charles II for a short time who bore the eldest of the king's twelve illigitimate children, later made the Duke of Monmouth. After his father's death, Monmouth led the unsuccessful rebellion against James II which resulted in his defeat and death and the execution or transportation of hundreds of his supporters in the West Country after the Bloody Assizes presided over by the notorious Judge Jeffreys.
She entered the fringes of London society through family connections and, at the age of 17, was the mistress of Algernon Sidney, a Roundhead officer. In the Netherlands, she met his younger brother, a Royalist exile, Robert Sidney. It was through Robert that she met Charles II.
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Lucy Walter was described by the diarist John Evelyn as "a most beautiful strumpet".
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Lucy claimed that the baby boy who was born when she was nineteen years old was the result of this short liason with Charles II. Doubts were cast as to whether the child was fathered by Charles or Robert Sidney but, when the boy was nine years old, he was removed from his mother's control by Charles. Lucy died shortly after, aged only 28.
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