updated: 01/11/2007
Unlike the sixteenth century no one face haunts us from the seventeenth century. But for English characters the screen has been dominated by the mistresses of king Charles II.
And yes I do know that queen Anne actually reigned at the begining of the eighteenth century but I’ve chosen to see her as the last of the seventeenth-century Stuarts and to regard the eighteenth century in the UK as begining with the arrival of the Hanoverians.
As with other period makeup sub-sections the characters shown here are an indiscriminate mixture of real persons and fictional characters. Also ordinary people are heavily under-represented: fashion was largely a matter for the rich.