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Lady Constance Lytton will be a name familiar to anyone who has studied the Votes for Women campaign waged between 1903 and...

Symbolist, sculptor and portrait painter George Frederic Watts is widely considered to be the greatest Victorian painter....

For those who really like a challenge, try following the intermarriages between the St John, Cromwell and Bernard...

Returning to our screens this weekend, Downton Abbey portraits an establishment where gentry and servants co-exist in a...

And just when you thought you had heard the last of the St John family at the court of Queen Anne - along...

You know how it is - you flip through the family photograph album and suddenly you come across that old snap, a woman...

Elizabeth Felton was a chip off the proverbial Villiers's block. The only daughter of James 3rd Earl of Suffolk and his...

Two first cousins named Barbara Villiers - born thirteen years apart and named after their grandmother Barbara St John....

This is the tale of yet another ambitious Villiers girl, and another Barbara to boot.  This Barbara was the eldest daughter...

William III is probably the last person one might expect to have a mistress.  In fact it has been suggested he was probably...