@past-times-lh.bsky.social#OTD 10 Oct 1588
#RobertDudley was buried in the Collegiate Church of St Mary Warwick
#ElizabethI was distraught, locking herself away until #LordBurghley had her door broken down - she kept 'his last letter' until her death
His widow #LetticeKnollys was interred with him in 1635
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21st September 1578
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, married Lettice Knollys (widow of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex) at his house in Wanstead, Essex.
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#RobertDudley #EarlofLeicester #LetticeKnollys #Tudors #History
@past-times-lh.bsky.social#OTD 21 Sept 1578
#RobertDudley secretly married #LetticeKnollys #ElizabethI's #lookalike cousin & widow of Walter Devereux
Robert, the Queens favourite took a huge risk in marrying without royal permission
Lettice, who Elizabeth nicknamed the “she-wolf” was banished from Court
