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Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger

…not to enjoy complete freedom, as she would be kept for a while under house arrest, but she must have been so relieved to be free of the place where…

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The Mirror of the Sinful Soul

…of Marguerite’s complex work, in that “it manages to reduce the complexities of the doctrine of justification by faith to two clear, simple sentences”, yet Elizabeth is only 11 years…

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A Response to “Did Robert Dudley Murder Amy Robsart?”

comments at https://www.elizabethfiles.com/did-robert-dudley-murder-amy-robsart/3611/ Dudley wrote to his agent Thomas Blout: “I have received a letter from one Smith, one that seemeth to be the foreman of the jury. I perceive…

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Update on “Did Robert Dudley Murder Amy Robsart?”

…(1995), the editor, Dr. Simon Adams (the greatest expert on Dudley), lists 300 pounds Dudley received from Forster in May 1559. Adams also comments on 310 pounds Dudley paid to…

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The Death of Elizabeth I

…at the Westminster Abbey Museum and there is a photo of it at www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk. You can also visit the Westminster Abbey page on Elizabeth I’s tomb at http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/royals/burials/elizabeth-i. Rest in…

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The Execution of Thomas Seymour

…Seymour began a campaign to undermine his brother and loosen his hold on their nephew, Edward VI. An informant told Seymour that the young King often complained about his lack…

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The Imprisonment of Elizabeth

…read a transcript of the Tide Letter. Video from TheBullen1’s YouTubeChannel There is also a wonderful clip from Elizabeth R, starring Glenda Jackson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSWbJEr-wg To the Tower On Palm…

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Did Robert Dudley Murder Amy Robsart?

come up with a conclusion. As someone who does not have any medical knowledge or expertise in pathology, apart from watching CSI or Silent Witness (!), I can’t come up…

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The Rose Theatre

…Trust at www.rosetheatre.org.uk. You can see a model of the Rose Theatre at theMuseum of London website and a picture of a Shakespearian shoes found at the site at http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/English/News/Current/Shakesperianshoes.htm…

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Taking On the Bard

…knew I would feel comfortable in late fifteenth century Italy.  My last historical novel, Signora da Vinci, had been set there.  For that book I had outdone myself in researching…

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Cecil’s Fast and Elizabeth I’s Navy

…it is that it gives you an idea of what life was like for the common people, rather than court life or the life of the rich. It’s so good…

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Elizabeth I’s Coronation Chart

…Sources http://elizabethsastrologer.ash.com/index.html – Sarah Rochel’s site on Astrology in the reign of Elizabeth I http://johndee.ash.com/index.html – A site all about Elizabeth I’s astrologer John Dee, a fascinating man. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/qe1.html –…

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Finding Kat Ashley by Karen Harper

…Tudor research, as much as I love it, it always a bit daunting.  Dates often vary, consistent spellings are non-existent, and, even though I try to read primary sources, comments…

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Happy New Year!

…all of you.I hope that 2010 will see us establishing a great community of Elizabeth I fans and having some great debates about her. My interest in Elizabeth I grew…

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Elizabeth I – England’s Greatest Monarch?

…they are rather compelling – see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6936537.stm#graphic for all of the arguments put forward by Sarah, Alison and Martyn. Perhaps Sarah put forward a few more arguments in the actual

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Elizabeth, Seymour and Shakespeare

…Shakespeare was actually the illegitimate son of Elizabeth I and was raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. But who was the father? Well, this is where it…

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Superstition

…big department stores and my father in turn took me, and so on. Generations of people have come and gone, lived and died, and yet Father Christmas remains – and

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Elizabeth I: Fortune’s Bastard by Richard Rex

…the English imagination for one of the formative phases of English history. Her reign saw England transformed, at her command, from a Catholic to a Protestant country, with incalculable consequences…

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The Arthur Dudley Myth

…the subject of books and documentaries, a man who some say was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. I decided to research the story after Jennifer commented…

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Elizabeth I – A Virago, Genetically Male or Simply a Strong woman?

…– This can be purchased from http://www.sciencedirect.com/ for $31.50, just search for the title or author. “Elizabeth the Queen” by Alison Weir “The Sisters Who Would be Queen” by Leanda…