DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester [1532-1588] -- English nobleman and courtier
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Leicester led a charmed existence. His family seemed drawn to the headsman as a moth to the flame. His father, brother and his grandfather were all beheaded. Robert himself was convicted of High Treason, which carried a particularly gruesome penalty: to be hanged, drawn and quartered. He not only escaped that fate -- despite his confessed guilt -- but Queen ¤Elizabeth's first act after her accession was to create him 1st Earl of Leicester! Dudley became Elizabeth's favorite, and they may have become lovers. Then there was the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Dudley's wife, Amy, which became the subject of Sir Walter Scott's novel, Kenilworth.
There has been a recent revival of interest in Robert Dudley, due in
part to sympathetic portrayals in the media, such as the 1998 movie Elizabeth,
and Derek Wilson's 1981 biography, Sweet Robin.
Wilson does a fair
job of rehabilitating the reputations of Robert's father and grandfather
in the bargain.
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Elizabeth called Dudley "Sweet Robin" in her letters to him
- Transworld : Book Details for Elizabeth & Leicester by Sarah Gristwood It has been almost half a century since any book set out specifically to examine and disentangle the emotive, often contradictory facts about their lifelong love.
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- A History of England from the Earliest Times ... - Google Book Search The assault at Flanders and the death of Sir Philip Sidney
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Elizabeth called Dudley "Sweet Robin" in her letters to him
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- LEICESTER, ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000
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Immortalized by Sir Walter Scott in his 1821 historical novel about the death of Leicester's first wife, Amy Robsart.
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