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Nell Gwyn war eine Schauspielerin und die im englischen Volk beliebteste der vielen Mätressen des englischen Königs Charles II. Von Samuel Pepys wurde sie wegen ihres Witzes und ihrer spitzen Zunge auch Pretty Witty Nell genannt.
Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period.
Nell Gwyn (born Feb. 2, 1650, London, Eng.—died Nov. 14, 1687, London) was an English actress and mistress of Charles II, whose frank recklessness, generosity, invariable good temper, ready wit, infectious high spirits, and amazing indiscretions appealed irresistibly to a generation that welcomed in her the living antithesis of Puritanism.
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6. März 2021 · Learn about the life and legacy of Nell Gwyn, a former orange seller who became a famous actress and the lover of King Charles II. Discover how she rose from rags to riches and back again, and how she embodied the spirit of the Restoration era.
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‘Pretty, witty Nell’ was perhaps the best known and remembered mistress of King Charles II. She was one of many (there were 13 in all during his lifetime), but she was the least ‘greedy’ of them all.
17. März 2017 · Learn about the life and legacy of Nell Gwynn, the orange seller-turned-actress who became a favourite mistress of King Charles II. Discover the London settings of her rags-to-riches story, from Covent Garden to Pall Mall.
Actress; mistress of Charles II Eleanor Gywn, or 'Pretty witty Nell', as Pepys called her, came to London as an orange-seller, and rose to become one of the leading comic actresses of the day, and mistress to the King, Charles II.
