Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

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Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

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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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.

Princess Margaret was known and loved for her wit and glamour. Though many commended her intelligence, her often cutting ...

The Royals have a storied history of sentimentality expressed through the medium of diamonds, pearls and precious stones ...

The letter to Queen Elizabeth is signed by the Earl of Leicester (Lyon & Turnbull/PA) A rare signed letter to Queen Elizabeth I from her lifelong friend and possible love interest, Robert Dudley ...

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 ...