It’s while staying at the sober-living facility that Wendy learns Kevin and his mistress are having a child, a betrayal that leads her to decisively end their marriage — and their business relationship. The composition was engraved in mezzotint in 1785, the year after its exhibition, by the leading engraver Valentine Green, further suggesting that the image was expected to have strong commercial appeal. Although the funds began to flow, (freeing Charles of some of the influence of Parliament) the conversion never seemed to happen, at least not publicly. The "ladies of the bedchamber" may not have all been ladies--in fact, some of them weren't--but anyone who has shared a bed with a reigning British sovereign, or his or her heir, has in more than one instance changed the course of history. The ways that words derived from Mistress have developed their own meanings is quite fascinating and shifts in these meanings can tell us a lot about the changing status of women in society, at home and in the workplace.

In July composer Judith Weir was named as the first woman to hold the post of Master of the Queen’s Music, following in the footsteps of dozens of eminent male musicians with the same title. Friends said that when she saw Woods, Miss Rotherham would joke she had been for a 'golf lesson' and was taking up the sport. Richard II (6 January 1367– February 1400) was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed on 30 September 1399.

She was known to compete for influence with Melusine and assumed, or pretended, to be a mistress by the British courtiers. She says: “Few people realise that ‘Mistress’ is the root word of both of the abbreviations ‘Mrs’ and ‘Miss’, just as Mr is an abbreviation of ‘Master’. Anne Hyde was his mistress before she became his wife; he met her in 1657 at The Hague, and by some reports, promised marriage to her when he became her lover a year or so after. During the Edwardian period the ‘sporting girl’ was increasingly being framed as modern and aspirational.

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. Opie, the son of a mine carpenter, was often condescendingly viewed as rough and unsophisticated in his personal qualities. The Bourne case offers a unique set of documents heretofore unavailable except through the British Library, National Archives’ State Papers, and Hatfield House. However, late in their marriage the aged King met Alice Perrers, a young lady-in-waiting to the Queen.However, when she became deaf in her early forties, he quickly became bored with her, and they parted amiably. She was also known to be a lover of Anne Palmer, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II and Barbara Villiers. Annie Kilner's protective sister Sian pays tribute to pregnant mother-of-three after launching public attack.

On 11 December 1936, Edward abdicated and left the United Kingdom so that he could marry his mistress; he did so and lived as Duke of Windsor in exile until his death. So, pity for the unlikely premises that prevent me from rating it higher, it would have been good and nice, with both celibate characters and very besotted with one another.This example shows that not all women had a title in front of their name, and demonstrates the use of Ms for an unmarried women (Mary Prince) and for a woman whose marital status is unclear (Gertrude Wingfield). Ecgwynn probably died by 899, as around the time of Alfred's death Edward married Ælfflæd, the daughter of Ealdorman Æthelhelm, probably of Wiltshire. The young King’s heart was soon taken by the married beauty Barbara Villiers who Charles would show off publicly. Although it generally is only used of females, by extrapolation, the relation can cover any lover of the monarch, whether male or female.