for Monmouth, her elder sister being the court beauty Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond.

[2] Sophia returned to England after the Restoration of 1660, and in 1671 became a maid of honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza.

Henry Bulkeley, which placed Sophia in the inner court circles, and, in due course in 1685, she became Dame du Palais to Queen Mary of Modena.

[3] In October 1688 she was a witness with Queen Mary at the birth of her son, the young James, Prince of Wales.

[2] Sophia remained a Jacobite loyalist, though she had personal reasons to return on occasion to England, something she managed in 1702.