List of English royal mistresses
This page contains a list of notable English royal mistresses.
Henry I
- Gieva de Tracy
- Ansfride (born c. 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):)
- Ida de Tosny was a royal ward and mistress of Henry II
Edward III
- Alice Perrers (c. 1348 – 1400)
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)
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