Sophia Bulkeley

Sophia Bulkeley (née Stewart; fl. 1660 – 1718) was a Scottish Jacobite courtier in France.

Early life She was a younger daughter of Walter Stewart (or Stuart), the third son of Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre, M.P. for Monmouth, her elder sister being the court beauty Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond. The Stuarts were royalists, and were in exile in France under the Commonwealth.

Court life Sophia returned to England after the Restoration of 1660, and in 1671 became a maid of honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza. About three years later she married Hon. 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. In October 1688 she was a witness with Queen Mary at the birth of her son, the young James, Prince of Wales. She made a final attempt in 1718, which once more failed. After his death, she married Count Daniel O'Mahony. François de Bulkeley (1686–1756), a Lieutenant-general; who married Marie-Anne O'Mahony, widow of Richard Cantillon and daughter of Count Daniel O'Mahony and Cecilia Weld.