According to the royal family's official website, she instead utilized marriage prospects as a tool in foreign and domestic policies, but some say that didn't stop her from falling in love. Queen ...

A rare signed letter to Queen Elizabeth I from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of ...

Queen Elizabeth I was known to be an all-powerful ... in passionate sexual relationships with men and had a number of love children, which would disprove the theory.

The long-term suitor was widely believed to have been her one true love, and their romance was reimagined in the 1998 film Elizabeth starring Cate Blanchett as the Queen and Joseph Fiennes as Dudley.

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A rare signed letter to Queen Elizabeth I from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, has been sold for £32,700 – four times more than the estimated ...