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2 articles matching “Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex”
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The man who had once walked into her bedchamber unannounced could no longer come into her presence. He wrote to her for forgiveness. He also needed her money, and she had begun to read the one as a preface to the other.
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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.