WORTH EVERY PENNY! King's privilege: Lucy Speed as Nell Gwyn in the film England My England. From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: June 24, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Byline: Andrew Roberts

THE most famous royal mistress in British history, Nell Gwyn, might havebeen a shopaholic, but she was a very meticulous one.

It seems she kept a note of every act of extravagance she enjoyed, asking theTreasury to pay them offand her long sexual liaison with King Charles II always ensured they all were.

With the auction at Sotheby's next month of her shopping bills covering athree-week period in 1675, we can see that her cost to the British taxpayermight shock even today's MPs and MEPs. Unlike them, however, her expensesclaims were always filed ...

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