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Seductive. Vindictive. Powerful. Ravenous.
Price
£6
£6 per ticket.
Where
Leicester Guildhall, Guildhall Lane, Leicester, LE1 5FQ
About
Historian and author Andrea Zuvich tells the story of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland and mistress to Charles II.
Andrea Zuvich examines Barbara Villiers’s rise from penniless aristocrat to one of the most powerful women at Charles II’s court. The talk explores why contemporaries regarded the Duchess of Cleveland as both influential and infamous, and draws on Zuvich’s 2024 biography.
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