But it is precisely this challenge that Lucy Worsley has taken up in Cavalier, her new account of the life of that decidedly elegant and complex man, William Cavendish, who enjoyed a stately existence ...

In Bolsover’s case, the main man was William Cavendish – a playboy cavalier, who inherited the Derbyshire castle from his father in 1617 and set about turning it into the ultimate pleasure palace.

The basis of William Cavendish's wealth was a great archipelago ... over a household on the grandest scale, and some of his 'Cavalier' values - loyalty on the one hand, epicureanism on the other ...

They may have been used for entertaining. “William Cavendish was a cavalier who built the castle for pleasure rather than war. “You can see the grandeur of his entertainment by the grand ...

Margaret Lucas, as she then was, was unhappily settled at the French court of Charles I’s doughty Henrietta Maria when she won the heart of William Cavendish in 1645. The couple married nine ...

William Cavendish, the fourth Earl of Devonshire, the statesman of the reigns of Charles, James, and William and Mary, became the first Duke of Devonshire, and it was from him Henry Cavendish ...