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Dorothy Stafford: From a Family the Tudors Broke to Elizabeth I's Bedchamber
She was born into a family the Tudors had broken twice. Then she took Mary Boleyn's husband for herself.
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Essex Bursts into Elizabeth I's Bedchamber at Nonsuch, 28 September 1599
Queen Elizabeth I had not even got dressed when he burst into her bedchamber. Robert Devereux believed that if he could reach Elizabeth I before his enemies did, she would save him. For a few hours on 28 September 1599, he thought it had worked.
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Carey, Baron Hunsdon: Elizabeth I's Cousin and Lifelong Servant
Queen Elizabeth I was sat at his bedside when he died at Somerset House on 23 July 1596, two days after dictating his will aloud because there was no time left to write it down. He was seventy years old, and he had served her for every one of the thirty-eight years she had worn the crown.
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Lettice Knollys: The Woman Elizabeth I Could Not Forgive
Lettice Knollys, the eldest daughter of Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey, was born on the 8th of November 1543 at Rotherfield Greys in Oxfordshire, and she inherited from her mother's side of the family two things that would define the entire shape of her life. Tudor red hair, and a connection to the English crown that everyone could see and nobody was permitted to discuss.
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Catherine Carey: Mary Boleyn's Daughter and Elizabeth I's Closest Companion
Catherine Carey was born in early 1524 at the precise midpoint of her mother Mary Boleyn's affair with Henry VIII, which is either a coincidence or the most consequential piece of timing in her entire life, depending on which historians you read and how carefully you look at her portraits.
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Elizabeth I: The Last of Henry VIII's Children
She was the last of them. Every other child Henry VIII had wanted, made, or broken was dead before she took the throne. She had survived them all by learning, very young, that need was the thing that killed you.
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Mary Tudor's Coronation, 1 October 1553: Crowning a Woman Who Ruled in Her Own Right
Two illegitimate daughters and an ex-wife arrived at the abbey to do something that had never been done before: crown a woman who would rule in her own right.
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Robert Dudley Made Earl of Leicester, 29 September 1564: The Husband Elizabeth Offered to Mary
Elizabeth was handing Robert Dudley to another queen. Halfway through the ceremony, she couldn't keep her hands off him.
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Sir Amias Paulet Refuses to "Shorten the Life" of Mary, Queen of Scots
Queen Elizabeth was displeased he had not yet found some way to "shorten the life" of his prisoner. His loyalty was unquestionable, as was his honour. His response was blunt and immediate.
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Robert Sutton: From Rector of Lutterworth to Catholic Martyr at Stafford, 27 July 1587
The soldiers found him mid-Mass. That was all of the evidence they needed.
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Edmund Dudley: The First Man Henry VIII Ordered Executed
He was the first that a young Henry VIII would order to be executed. Nobody felt inclined to argue against it.
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Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Wife, Regent and Author
Catherine Parr was already in love with another man when Henry VIII decided he wanted her. She said yes anyway. It was the only way either of them was getting out of it alive.