mistress
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He acquired Anthony van Dyck’s highly finished portrait of his mistress, Margaret Lemon, c.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
He and William pleaded with him not to marry his long-term mistress and now queen, Camilla, Harry revealed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.
From Salon ● May 13, 2026
In 1903, she and her friend Dorelia McNeill, who was also Augustus's mistress, returned to France via Bordeaux with the intention of walking all the way to Rome.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
For once Penelope found herself agreeing with her mistress, and not just about dessert.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Kim Jong Il also had two other mistresses aside from Ko: Sung Hae-rim and Kim Ok.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Descended from King Charles II and one of his mistresses, Richmond numbered among those aristocratic Whigs who dominated the British parliament in the 18th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Under Holinshed's assertion that Richard the Lionheart was "not very notorious," Milton added: "the booke of Provenzall poets numbers him in / the catalogue, telling of his poetrie, and his Provenzal / mistresses."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
So there was this constant contradiction in their lives, but ultimately they were not the mistresses of their own destinies.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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