Editing Rosamund Clifford (section)

=== Henry II's mistress ===
Clifford was reputed as one of the greatest beauties of the 12th century.<ref name="bbcoxf">[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-28426782 "'Fair Rosamund' well to be restored at Blenheim Palace", BBC News (Oxford), July 20, 2014]</ref> Her relationship with [[Henry II of England|Henry II]], King of England (1133–1189) supposedly started when his wife, [[Eleanor of Aquitaine|Queen Eleanor]] ({{circa|1122{{snd}}1204}}) was pregnant with their last child, [[John, King of England|John]] (1166–1216) in 1166, but the king publicly acknowledged the [[affair]] for the first time in 1174.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Weir |first=Alison |title=Eleanor of Aquitaine, by the wrath of God, Queen of England |date=1999 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |isbn=978-0-224-04424-0 |location=London}}</ref> The queen is thought to have given birth to John in [[Beaumont Palace|Beaumount Palace]] instead of [[Woodstock Palace]] because Clifford lived at Woodstock. Alison Weir in her biography of Eleanor, thinks this unlikely and dismisses it as "another example of the unsupported fictions that have attached themselves to Rosamund's name".<ref name=":0" /> Accounts differ on whether Clifford stayed in Woodstock while the king was travelling between England and his continental lands or accompanied him. If she did not go with him, they could not have spent more than about a quarter of the time between 1166 and 1176 together.<ref name=":0" />