Death and the Virgin by Chris Skidmore
November 2, 2010 - 2:23 pm
Death and the Virgin
Chris Skidmore
Orion; Approximately $40.00
It is hardly mere prurience wondering if the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I of England, was, in fact, a virgin during her reign; it is key to Britain’s most brilliant monarch.
It would seem, for instance, that she was besotted with Robert Dudley, on whom she showered precious gifts and favours. She made him the Earl of Leicester to the disapproval of much of her court. Its censure was understandable because both Dudley’s father and his grandfather were executed as traitors. For many years Elizabeth also allowed Dudley to hope that he might be the one taken in marriage to her royal self. (more…)
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