Elizabeth & Leicester /
Elizabeth and Leicester
Sarah Gristwood.
- London : Bantam, 2007.
- 407 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-387) and index.
They both grew up amid the palaces and plots of Henry VIII's court; they were both imprisoned in the Tower of London by elizabeth's sister, Mary. Soon after Elizabeth herself became queen, there were scandalized letters from ambassadors about her infatuation with the married Robert Dudley - to be followed a mere two years later by the suspicious death of his wife Amy.
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Elizabeth I, Queen of England--1533-1603. Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of--1532?-1588. Elizabeth I, Queen of England--Relations with men.--1533-1603