Download or read book Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the Restoration written by W. R. H. Trowbridge and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the Restoration" by W. R. H. Trowbridge is a book about Great Britain's history and restoration (1660-1688). The epoch of restauration is one of the most interesting and intriguing topic in English history. It is a subject on which an immense number of books has been written. Of the eight beautiful women whose extraordinary careers are described in the following pages, the names of all are probably more or less familiar to the reader, while some—such as "Madame" and the Duchess of Portsmouth— have provided several historians with themes that have elevated them to the proud height of classical authority. The author's goal is to make an inquiry into the private lives of the great and into the spirit of the society of the past.