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Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, before 1666 Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Northumberland, 1669. The Windsor Beauties are a set of portrait paintings, still in the Royal Collection, by Sir Peter Lely and his workshop, produced in the early to mid-1660s, that depict ladies of the court of King Charles II, some of whom were his mistresses.
Anne, Countess of Sunderland, by Sir Peter Lely, as one of the Windsor Beauties. Hampton Court Palace.. Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland (née Digby; c. 1646 – 26 April 1715) was the wife of Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland and the daughter of George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol and Lady Anne Russell.
Anne Digby Born (1943-05-05) 5 May 1943 (age 81) Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England Occupation Writer Nationality British Genre Children's fiction Notable works Trebizon (school stories) Anne Digby (born 5 May 1943 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey) is a prolific British children's writer best known for the Trebizon series published between 1978 and 1994. The name is a pen name. Digby ...
Diana Digby, who, in 1658, married Rene de Mol, Baron de Herent (died 1691), a nobleman of Flanders and had issue, including Jean-Baptiste, Baron de Herent, who was later styled "Comte de Bristole". Like her father she was a convert to Catholicism. Anne Digby (c.1646-1715), who married Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, and had children.
Margaret, Lady Denham (c. 1642 – January 1667), formerly the Honourable Margaret Brooke, was an English courtier during the reign of King Charles II of England and was one of the "Windsor Beauties" painted by Sir Peter Lely. [1] She was a mistress of the future King James II of England.
4 (in the original series then the additional six by Anne Digby) The Naughtiest Girl is a series of children's novels written by Enid Blyton in the 1940s–1950s. Unusually, they are set at a progressive boarding school rather than a traditional one.
Elizabeth was an important patron of the artist Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680), who painted her several times. Her portraits were among the Windsor Beauties at Hampton Court and among the series of beautiful women portraits, ordered by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
The Naughtiest Girl Helps a Friend is the second of Anne Digby's continuation of "The Naughtiest Girl" series (originally by Enid Blyton), and the sixth book about Elizabeth Allen, the "Naughtiest Girl" of the title.