Royal Harlot : A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II

A fictional account of the life and times of one of seventeenth-century England's most notorious women profiles Barbara Villiers Palmer, a Royalist beauty whose wit and sensuality captivate King Charles II and who presides over the bawdy Restoration court as the king's mistress, until she finds the role of royal mistress can be a precarious one. Or