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Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress Bio25 Justine Picardie spent years puzzlingBarbara Villiers was a woman so beautiful, so magnetic and so sexually attractive that she captured the hearts of many in Stuart era Britain. Her beauty is legendary: she became the muse of artists such as Peter Lely, the inspiration of writers such as John Dryden and the lover of John Churchill, the future great military leader whom we also know as the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her greatest amorous conquest was King Charles II, King of England,