Rare letter to Queen Elizabeth from love interest fetches £32,000 at auction
An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, ...
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Rare letter to Elizabeth I from possible love interest sold for £32,700
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.
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This Tragic European Monarch Was Executed for Treason on Her Cousin’s Orders
Elizabeth I ordered the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic claimant to the English throne, on this day in 1587 Sarah Holzmann Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle ...
James VI, King of Scots 1567 - 1625, King of England and Ireland 1603 - 1625
Eventually in 1603 Elizabeth died and James was offered the throne. The succession passed smoothly and James VI of Scotland became James I of England and Ireland. Although promising to return to ...
Rare letter to Queen Elizabeth fetches £32,000 at Edinburgh auction
An extremely rare autographed letter to Queen Elizabeth from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, ...
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Rare letter to Elizabeth I from possible love interest sold for £32,700
This was a conspiracy between English Catholics and continental powers to overthrow Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots ... known one another since childhood and although he ...