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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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Kenilworth, July 1575: Robert Dudley's Nineteen-Day Proposal to Elizabeth
For nineteen days, Robert Dudley turned his own castle into a proposal. Elizabeth ate the food, watched the pageants, praised the fireworks, and left exactly as unmarried as she had arrived. The queen had understood the invitation perfectly.
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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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Norfolk and Mary, Queen of Scots: The Marriage Plot of 1569–1572
They had never met. He sent her a diamond. She sent him an embroidered pillow. On the first of July 1569 Norfolk wrote that he had gone too far to stop.
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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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Katherine Grey: The Secret Marriage and the Tower
Katherine Grey was twenty years old, eight months pregnant, and standing outside Robert Dudley's bedroom in the middle of the night asking him to help her. She had a secret husband, a missing marriage certificate, and a cousin on the throne who would never forgive her for any of it. She had done nothing except fall in love at the wrong time and with the wrong man. She was trapped in the wrong body. It was a body that carried royal blood she had never asked for and could not give back.
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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.