The ‘Real’ Lady de Winter?

A fascinating look, if a bit suspect, at one of the scandalous and remarkable Stuart (and particularly the first Caroline court) contemporaries, Lady Lucy Hay nee Percy, Countess of Carlisle, who was allegedly the mistress of James I & VI and Charles I’s favorite the Duke of Buckingham and a close friend of Charles I’s queen Henrietta Maria in the early years of Charles and Henrietta’s reign.