Editing Lucy Walter (section)

{{Short description|Welsh noblewoman and mistress of Charles II of England}}
{{use British English|date=May 2014}}
{{For|the British-American actress|Lucy Walters}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Lucy Walter
| image              = File:Sir Peter Lely - Lucy Walter.jpg
| caption            = Portrait by [[Peter Lely]], c. 1650
| alias              = Lucy Barlow ([[pseudonym]])
| partner            = Lord Robert Sidney<br/>[[Charles II of England]]<br/>[[Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford]]<br/>Sir [[Henry de Vic]]<br/>Lord Thomas Howard
| children           = [[James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth]]<br/>Mary Crofts
| parents            = William Walter<br/>Elizabeth Protheroe
| birth_date         = c. 1630
| birth_place        = [[Roch Castle]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wales]]
| death_date         = 1658 (aged {{circa}} 28)
| death_place        = [[Paris]], [[Kingdom of France|France]]
}}
'''Lucy Walter''' (c. 1630 – 1658), also known as '''Lucy Barlow''', was the first [[Royal mistress|mistress]] of [[King Charles II of England]] and mother of [[James, Duke of Monmouth]]. During the [[Exclusion Crisis]], a Protestant faction wanted to make her son heir to the throne, fuelled by the rumour that the king might have married Lucy, a claim which he denied.