Louise de keroualle biography of albert

  • Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth was born 5 September and is the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle.
  • Louise de Kérouaille was maid of honour to Henrietta, sister of Charles II, in and shortly afterwards became the King's mistress, and created Duchess in.
  • Louise de Kérouaille, mistress of Charles II, is born.

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    This tiny portrait in miniature is a copy of the head and shoulders of a much larger portrait in oil. Painted by Pierre Mignard, the oil fryst vatten in the National Portrait Gallery in London (number ). The oil portrait shows the seated three-quarter-length figure of the Duchess of Portsmouth, accompanied bygd a black page. It is signed and dated Paris Rosse’s copy, in this small format, must date from very soon after.

    This miniature is catalogue number in John Murdoch’s Seventeenth-century English Miniatures in the Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum ().

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    TitleLouise Renée de Penancoet de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth (generic title)
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    Watercolour on vellum put down on pasteboard

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    Portrait miniature of Louise Renée de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, a copy after Mignard, watercolour on vellum, painted bygd Susannah-Penelope Rosse.

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    Biography of Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha

    11 Feb Tuesday. Supplement to the London Gazette.

    St James's Palace [Map]. February 10,

    THIS day the Marriage of the [his wife] QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY (age 20) with Field Marshal His ROYAL HIGHNESS FRANCIS ALBERT AUGUSTUS CHARLES EMANUEL, DUKE OF SAXE, PRINCE OF SAXE COBOURG AND GOTHA, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (age 20), was solemnized at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace.

    Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Prince Albert, attended by his Suite, proceeded from Buckingham-Palace [Map] this day, about half past eleven o'clock, to St. James's-Palace [Map], in the following order:

    The first Carriage,.

    Conveying General Sir George Anson, G.C.B. (age 43); George Edward Anson, Esq (age 28); and Francis Seymour, Esq (age 26); the Bridegroom's Gentlemen of Honour.

    The second Carriage,.

    Conveying the Lord Chamberlain of the Household, the Earl of Uxbridge (

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    Royal Mistresses: Louise de Kérouaille

    Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth was born 5 September and is the daughter of Guillaume de Penancoët, Seigneur de Kéroualle and Marie de Ploeuc de Timeur. Nobles in Brittany, France, the family name is derived from an heriess whom an ancester François de Penhoët married in

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    Louise was introduced early to the household of Henrietta Anne Stuart, Duchess of Orléans, sister of Charles II of Great Britain, and sister-in-law of Louis XIV of France, Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon. In , Louise accompanied Henrietta on a visit to Charles II at Dover. With Henrietta dying suddenly, Louise was unprovided for, but Charles II still appointed her as a lady-in-waiting to his own queen, Catherine of Braganza. It&#;s believed Louise was selected by the French court to fascinate Charles, although there is no evidence for this claim.

    Over time, Louise established a