Maid of honour

And actually Anne

Finch, the poet Anne Finch, was another of the Maids of Honour there at the same time as Anne Killicrew was.

And so they would have known each other as young women as well.

Venus Attired by the Graces is actually the painting that drew me to the whole story.

I saw this painting when I was reviewing an exhibition and I saw that it was thought to be an allegory of Maria as Venus and the Graces as her maids of honour, one of whom Anne Killigrew has really sort of pride of place in this picture.

She's crouching at Venus's feet.

It's a very private conversation, if you like, that they're having.

She was the daughter of the then Earl of Leicester.

And there she was, yes, at the coronation in 53 as one of the Queen's Maids of Honour.

So, you know, she was absolutely at the peak of society.

But she wrote in her first book, her first memoir, It was a very tricky marriage to Colin Tennant, who became Lord Glenconner.

Afterwards, when his father came to London, he was for a short time a scholar at St. Paul's School, where, however, he did not stay long enough to get any literary training and remained all his life entirely wanting in book learning.

Sir Winston Churchill thought it well to make speedy use of the favor he enjoyed at court and soon after the Restoration took John away from school to place him as Page of Honor with the Duke of York, the King's brother, and John's sister, Arabella, was made Maid of Honor to the first Duchess of York, Anne Hyde.

In this way, the fortunes of Sir Winston's children were secured.

John's interest in military matters was soon noticed by the Duke of York.