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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
Anne Kingsmill was born in April, 1661, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill and Anne Haslewood. Sir William died only 5 months after Anne's birth. At the age of twenty-three, she went to the court of Charles II as a maid of honor (attendant) to the duchess of York. She married one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, but both she and her husband were forcibly retired when James II was deposed. After two years, her husband inherited a title a..
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