Rare letter to Elizabeth I from possible love interest sold for £32,700
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.
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Rare Queen Mary I letter linked to Leicestershire uprising set for auction
A historic royal letter addressing a planned Leicestershire ... on "false rumors" about Spanish invasion. Mary I, who came to be known as 'Bloody Mary', would later order the execution of 283 ...