Elizabeth Leicester jellemzők
Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her 'bonnie sweet Robin' - the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley.
Almost immediately after she became queen, their infatuation became the subject of letters from scandalized ambassadors. And when Robert's wife, Amy, died a mere two years later, many speculated that they would marry.
They never did, although by the time Robert died he had been Elizabeth's councillor and commander of her army, had sat by her bed in sickness and represented her on state occasions. But she had also humiliated him, and tried to have him clapped in prison when he finally broke loose and married again.
Elizabeth amp; Leicester is an intimate portrait of the bond between two of the most famous people in the land; of a relationship where, unusually, a woman held all the power; of an edgy yet enduring love that still speaks to us today.
Almost immediately after she became queen, their infatuation became the subject of letters from scandalized ambassadors. And when Robert's wife, Amy, died a mere two years later, many speculated that they would marry.
They never did, although by the time Robert died he had been Elizabeth's councillor and commander of her army, had sat by her bed in sickness and represented her on state occasions. But she had also humiliated him, and tried to have him clapped in prison when he finally broke loose and married again.
Elizabeth amp; Leicester is an intimate portrait of the bond between two of the most famous people in the land; of a relationship where, unusually, a woman held all the power; of an edgy yet enduring love that still speaks to us today.
