‘During his escape after the Battle of Worcester, Prince Charles was referred to as 'a tall, black man' in parliamentary wanted posters. One of the nicknames he acquired was ‘the black boy’. In this painting in the Gallery at Ham House by Peter Lely, Elizabeth Murray, Lady

Tollemache Murray, later Countess of Dysart and Duchess of Lauderdale, is accompanied by a black servant who looks up at her adoringly. Elizabeth however stares off into the distance, while holding a posey of roses. The rose from ancient times has been a symbol of silence and

‘There is now enough evidence available to suggest that Lord Burlington can no longer be regarded as the embodiment of the Whig ideal. Too many circumstances point to his having had #Jacobite connections, directly when travelling on the Continent, through his #freemasonry, through his cousin Lord Orrery, through Bishop Atterbury, through Dr Drake (the Jacobite historian of York), and via servants such as his chaplin Aaron Thompson, or his agent Andrew Crotty. It is now more than ever true, as Jane Clark observed, that the case for Lord