The five children of Charles I King Charles II (1630-1685)

Left to right: Mary, Princess of Orange;

King James II; King Charles II; Princess Elizabeth;

Princess Anne

Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth

[Charles II’s queen] (1649-1734)

John Evelyn (1620-1706) Nell Gwyn (1650-1687)

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709)

John Locke (1632-1704) Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

John Dryden (1631-1700) John Wilmot, 2^nd earl of Rochester (1647-1680)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (1649-1685)

Shaftesbury (1621-1683)

William Congreve (1670-1729) Anne Bracegirdle (1663?-1748) as the title role in Dryden’s Indian Queen (1664)

Elizabeth Barry (1658-1713) Thomas Betterton (1635-1710)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Queen Mary II (1662-1694) King William III (William of Orange) (1650-1702)

King George I (1660-1727)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) at 39 Alexander Pope (1688-1744) at 49

David Hume (1711-1776) Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Stephen Duck (1705-1756) William Collins (1721-1759)

Ann Yearsley, ‘The milk-maid poet’ (1756-1806) William Cowper (1731-1800)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Christopher Smart (1722-1771)