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.

Hello!

Hello there! 🙂 My name is Dawn and I’m a history geek whose specialties are mostly ancient, medieval, early modern, royal, and European history.

Recently, I’ve become very fascinated by the House of Stuart which ruled Scotland from 1371 to 1603, the Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1603 to 1707, and Great Britain and Ireland from 1707 to 1714, though I also like and am interested in the other royal dynasties of England such as the Norman dynasty, the House of Plantagenet and its cadet branches the Houses of Lancaster and York, the House of Tudor, the House of Hanover, and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha later renamed as the House of Windsor. And what better way to quench my interest than creating a blog simply dedicated to these fascinating, complex, and morally ambiguous rulers?

Be warned, however, that I will be mostly posting about the Stuart monarchs from 1603-1714 since they’re the ones who first caught my interest and the ones I would most love to learn more about, so sorry if you’re more interested in the earlier Stuarts who merely ruled Scotland!