Venus in a Smock

Francis had an affair with a man called Robert Howard, gave birth in secret to a child they called Robert Wright. She swore blind that the child was actually John Villiers' son, but she paid me wasn't and they were both found guilty of adultery. Buckingham took the opportunity to take possession of Francis' 10,000 pound dowry,. meanwhile keeping Francis in pennoury until he was forced to cough up an annual stipend for her by James. By 1634, both Buckingham and Edward Cook were dead, so Francis returned to London to be with Robert Howard. Sadly, Charles I was no more forgiving; into jail she went, only would he believe it, to escape back