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

Malcolm Weale was in a farmer's field with his metal detector when he unearthed a tiny and dirt-covered object.

Queen Elizabeth I was known to be an all-powerful monarch, a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada, a leader loved by her subjects and a muse for Shakespeare. The late Queen of England and ...

Born into royal turmoil, Elizabeth I faced betrayal, imprisonment, and religious conflict before becoming one of England’s ...

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

As the daughter of King Henry VIII, whose six marriages reshaped the monarchy and led to England’s break from the Catholic Church, Elizabeth may have been wary of matrimony. Queen Elizabeth ...

The earl also apologises in the letter for his elusiveness during his recent journey across the Midlands of England. His marriage in 1578 to Lettice, dowager countess of Essex, who Elizabeth ...

The key chapter of his reign involved two women - his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I of England. Throughout his reign James was keen to be seen to be supportive of the English queen.

Almost 500 years ago, a princess called Elizabeth became Queen of England. People were worried. It was unusual to be ruled by a woman, because at the time, they were seen as weak and not as clever ...

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