Dudley’s Last Letter to Queen Elizabeth I 

Elizabeth kept the last letter Robert Dudley had written her prior to his death in her bedside treasure box — the letter was still there when she died over a decade later. – From:

I most humbly beseech your Majesty to pardon your poor old servant to be thus bold in sending to know how my gracious lady doth, and what ease of her late pain she finds, being the chiefest thing in the world I do pray for, for her to have good health and long life. Form my own poor case, I continue still your medicine and find that amends much better than any other thing that hath been given me. Thus hoping to find perfect cure at the bath, with the continuance of my wonted prayer for your Majesty’s most happy preservation, I humbly kiss your foot. From your old lodging at Rycote, this Thursday morning, ready to take on my Journey, by Your Majesty’s most faithful and obedient servant,

Even as I had writ thus much, I received Your Majesty’s token by Young Tracey.

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Wow!! Such a Lovely letter! Can really tell he loved her. Right up to the day he passed away. Heart touching.

It was a shame he portrayed her. He was very jealous. Robert Dudley was the love of her life, that is why he kept his head. Love the story very romantic.

Too bad that they couldn’t have gotten married. I don’t think that Queen Elizabeth, trusted anyone enough to give that kind of power away.

I believe that she feared childbirth. After all, women did not have any easy time during that period with pregnancies and birth. Plus, once she married, her advisors would have nagged her constantly to birth a prince or two. This was not what she wanted to do.

I also believe she feared childbirth, also by getting married she would be giving some of her power away . She was smart enough to realize that any man, King or Prince , who wanted to marry her was really after her throne and that included Robert Dudley. An amazing woman for her time

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