For her part, Elizabeth was threatened by a more intimate menace. Robert Devereux, the dashing and reckless Earl of Essex, moved into her good graces on the sudden death of his stepfather ...

The earl also apologises in the letter for his ... dowager countess of Essex, who Elizabeth loathed, is believed to have contributed to his absence and he was forced to keep his marriage half ...

Hatton also helped Elizabeth to control her Parliament. Image caption, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was the stepson of Robert Dudley. Like his stepfather, he was a radical Protestant and a ...

He was born 11th January 1591, the eldest son of Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex and his wife Frances Sidney (nee Walsingham). He had a brother Walter. His father was one of Elizabeth I's favourites but she ...

to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. But it wasn't the tiara’s first appearance at a Coronation ceremony. It had originally been commissioned in 1902 by the Earl of Essex for his wife, ...