However, Robert could not marry the Queen, but he could marry any other woman.
That put an end to any possibility of Elizabeth and Robert ever marrying. Then, Robert’s wife died and the path to marriage opened for the Queen and her love, but they could not marry because Robert’s wife died in suspicious circumstances and the Queen could not afford to be blamed for it.
She showered him with gifts and titles, but Robert was married and their relationship did not have a future. Queen Elizabeth I is known for her love for Robert Dudley (she is well known for other – more important – things as well, of course). I am very pleased when obscure historical people have a central role in a novel and Lettice Knollys is a great example of the fact that sometimes, history forgets people that should not be forgotten, as they played an important role in historical events.
The narrator of the story is Lettice Knollys, a noble woman who angered Queen Elizabeth I by marrying the Queen’s favourite, the famous Robert Dudley. Tudor England is one of my favourite historical periods to read about and I am very strict when it comes to assessing a book taking place in Tudor England, but Holt delivered the story very well and managed to create tension and anticipation in me, although I already knew the historical facts. This story is rich with historical details and presents life and people at the court of Elizabeth I very skilfully and clearly, without confusing the reader, and it follows historical events. This book presents the story of Lettice Knollys, the woman who married Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite, and consequently became an object of the queen’s anger and resentment. This soldier-poet, the Earl of Essex, is the son of Lettice and her first husband, Walter Devereaux.
Some years later, on Leicester's death, another courtier wins the queen's heart - only to break it by secretly marrying someone else and then by plotting against the Crown. Is Queen Elizabeth I too wily or too afraid to marry? Or is there a spoiler - Lettice Devereaux - in the royal romances? The marriage between this beautiful and tempestuous widow and Elizabeth's longtime favorite, the Earl of Leicester, can't have endeared Lettice to the queen.
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