Context: In the spring of 1559, it became evident that Elizabeth was in love with her childhood friend Robert Dudley.\68])\69]) It was said that his wife Amy was suffering from a "malady in one of her breasts" and that the Queen would like to marry Robert if his wife should die.\69]) By the autumn of 1559, several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England:\70]) "There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation … she will marry none but the favoured Robert."\71]) Amy Dudley died in September 1560, from a fall from a flight of stairs and, despite the coroner's inquest finding of accident, many people suspected her husband of having arranged her death so that he could marry the Queen.\72])\h]) Elizabeth seriously considered marrying Dudley for some time. However, William Cecil, Nicholas Throckmorton, and some conservative peers made their disapproval unmistakably clear.\75]) There were even rumours that the nobility would rise if the marriage took place.
A central issue, when it comes to the question of Elizabeth's virginity, was whether the Queen ever consummated her love affair with Robert Dudley. In 1559, she had Dudley's bedchambers moved next to her own apartments. In 1561, she was mysteriously bedridden with an illness that caused her body to swell.
by Salty_Strain3313
11 Comments
Call it Karma for how she letthe sailors wgo defeated the spanish armada starve and die of disease on their ships, she was a tyrant who basically murdered the sailors who saved england so she didn’t have to pay as much to surviving veterans
Turns out it’s very easy to lie in general… case in point: *gestures wildly to every politician*
It makes me shudder to think about what Lizzy had to go through to get an abortion in 1561.
Wonder how she never got pregnant then lol
The Favourite is a really good movie tho.
Did she also tie the swollen tissues as shown in the illustration op? Or it’s not a representation of reality?
It’s also easy to lie about these events even taking place. A lot of claims about people being Elizabeth’s illegitimate children originated from people attempting to justify a claim to the English throne, such as one man turning up in the Spanish court claiming to be her son but the Spanish suspended that he was a spy trying to get information about the court for England and the claims were to try and establish him in the court.
“Modern scholarship dismisses the story’s basic premise as “impossible”,[106] and asserts that Elizabeth’s life was so closely observed by contemporaries that she could not have hidden a pregnancy.”
Probs worth including this bit too, if we’re quoting/meme-ing a Wikipedia article.
Well what do we rename Virginia to?
Robert Dudley really moved his bedroom next door and said, ‘It’s for the Wi-Fi signal, I swear.
Why were those people against Elisabeth marrying Robert Dudley?