King's Mistress, Queen's Servant

Tracy Borman

Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. Described by Swift as a consummate courtier who packed away her 'private virtues...like cloths in a chest', by Pope as 'so very reasonable, so unmov'd', and by the world at large as 'the Swiss' (due...