Elizabeth I's Secret Lover

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

New Hardback Illustrated

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After setting out the dangers his family faced following Henry VIII’s death, this biography traces Robert Dudley’s rise to a position of considerable influence in the Elizabethan court. Casting his subject as ‘another of Cecil’s victims’, Stedall offers a fresh assessment of the nobleman’s achievements and the nature of his relationship with the queen, before exploring his role as a political advisor and military leader.

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