 | Hugh Robert Eardley Childers - Murder - 1913 - 412 pages
...interests. Burnet says : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; very uneasy to the King, and always carrying on intrigues...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application."* For a woman in whose character rapacity... | |
 | Frank Taylor - Great Britain - 1921 - 634 pages
...stimulated an appetite that had been cloyed by universal acquiescence. Burnet says that the King's " passion for her, and her strange behaviour towards...was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business."4 But whatever may have been the key wherewith she could unlock the heart of Charles, it... | |
 | William Wycherley - English drama - 1924 - 300 pages
...Cleveland, gives this character of her : " She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish but imperious; very uneasy to...men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." Says Oldmixon:1 " 'Tis not a secret that she was the lewdest as well as the fairest of all King Charles's... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1924 - 390 pages
.... She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous, foolish but imperious, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him." On February 25, 1661, she was delivered of a child, Anne. Her husband claimed the paternity of the... | |
 | Louis Landré - 1935 - 668 pages
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She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange... 
