List of English royal mistresses

This page contains a list of notable English royal mistresses.

Henry I

• Gieva de Tracy
• Ansfride (b. about 1070)
• Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (1077 – after 1157)
• Edith FitzForne
• Princess Nest ferch Rhys (c. 1073 – after 1136)
• Isabel de Beaumont (c. 1102 - c. 1172)

Henry II

• Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176):)

Edward III

• Alice Perrers (c. 1348 – 1400)

Edward IV

• Jane Shore
• Elizabeth Lucy

Henry VIII

• Bessie Blount (c. 1502 – 1540), mother of his only acknowledged illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
• Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 1543), sister of his second wife, Anne, cousin of his fifth wife Catherine Howard and mother of Henry VIII's alleged children, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys
• Mary Shelton (c.1518-c.1560), mistress during his marriage to her cousin, Anne Boleyn
• Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (after 1483 – 1544), who was prosecuted for adultery in 1527

Charles II

• Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658)
• Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640 – 1709)
• Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649 – 1734)
• Hortense Mancini (1646 – 1699)
• Nell Gwyn (c. 1650 – 1687)
• Moll Davis
• Winifred Wells
• Jane Roberts
• Mrs. Knight
• Mary Bagot, widow of Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth
• Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
• Elizabeth, Countess of Kildare
• Catherine Pegge (b. 1635)

James II

• Anne Hyde (later his wife)
• Arabella Churchill (1648 – 1730)
• Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester (1657 – 1717)
• Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield (rumoured)

William III

• Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (c. 1657 – 1733) (rumoured)

See also

• List of Scottish royal mistresses
• List of Swedish royal mistresses