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Christine Hartweg lives in Berlin and was born in South America in 1972. She has been researching the Dudley family of Tudor England since 2008 and has advised the BBC and other TV channels.

29 September 1564: Robert becomes Earl of Leicester

Elizabeth I was long known to entertain plans to raise her favourite, Robert Dudley, known as Lord Robert, to the peerage. He could certainly reckon with an earldom; while a dukedom would have universally been seen as an announcement by … Continue reading → Read more of this blog post »
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