Sex, Love, & Scandal in Restoration Britain
Andrea Zuvich
- Regions:
- England, Scotland, Wales
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £50 minimum, plus expenses, but this can be negotiated based on travel.
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 28th January 2026
- Tagged:
- Late 17Th Century | King Charlesii | Mistress | Sex
The Restoration court of Charles II was infamous for its environment of hedonism and vice. Join historian Andrea Zuvich as she covers the scintillating and shocking sex and love scandals of this debauched court, and unpleasant ends of some of the wildest of the rakes and rogues.
Views: 1008 | Enquiries: 1About Andrea Zuvich
Andrea Zuvich is an independent seventeenth-century historian specialising in the House of Stuart (1603–1714) and author of nonfiction history works such as Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress (2024), Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain (2020), The Stuarts in 100 Facts (2015), and A Year in the Life of Stuart Britain (2016). She is also a historical advisor and has appeared on Woman’s Hour, and BBC4’s Charles I: Downfall of a King (2019) and A Kingdom in Chaos (2026). She runs the popular ‘The Seventeenth Century Lady’ blog, and is the hostess of the monthly live-streamed online history show, Stuart Saturday Live. She was one of the original developers of the Garden History Tours at Kensington Palace and one of the co-founders of The Stuart History Festival. She lives in Bolsover, Derbyshire, with her family.
She can appear in period costume if wished.
Paid: £90 fee, plus expenses. Reduced fee for charities and public libraries.
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