Lady Barbara FitzRoy

[3][4] Boyer in his "Annals", published in the lifetime of the Duke of Marlborough says of Barbara: "I do not find the King ever owned her for his daughter; but a great man now living is her reputed father.

The main reason for the name change was to distance him from the Hamilton family who had sent Charles out to France after the disgrace of his father's affair and bastard child.

Charles on returning to England went into the Army, became a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Scots Greys and was created a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath.

After giving birth, she became a nun[8] in the English Priory of St. Nicholas, at Pontoise in Normandy, France, taking the name Sister Benedicta, where she later became prioress in 1721.

[5]Roughly translated as: My name in the world is Barbe Fitz Roy, in Religion it is Benedicta, daughter of the King of Great Britain, Charles II.