Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon (baptised 16 May 1622 – December 1680), was an English courtier and mistress of King Charles II.
[2] As the couple was young, there was discussion whether they should live together, or if Francis should depart on a Grand Tour first.
[4] Her daughter Charlotte Jemia Henrietta Maria FitzRoy was fathered by the exiled Prince Charles in 1650.
Her daughter Charlotte married firstly the playwright James Howard and in 1672 remarried William Paston, son of the Earl of Yarmouth.
[7] Poet Anne Killigrew was Elizabeth's niece; among her relatives Lady Shannon also numbered the politicians and playwrights Sir William Killigrew (her brother) and Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery (a brother-in-law), Robert Boyle, the physicist, and Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (the latter two siblings-in-law).