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Acknowledgements

As I have, during the last few years, been an uninvited guest in Elizabeth’s Bedchamber so too have I encroached shamelessly on the time, generosity, support and patience of many people during the writing of this book. It has been a test of stamina and endurance all round.

The Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London has been enthusiastic about my work and very supportive of my research and writing. My undergraduates continually question and challenge me to think and rethink. My PhD students, Mariana Brockmann and Nikki Clark, have assisted with some research. The staff of the Cambridge University Library have proved continuingly helpful, friendly and supportive, as I have piled books on my desk and submitted endless request slips. Similarly helpful have been the staff of the British Library and the National Archives.

A number of scholars and writers have assisted me and been generous with their time and knowledge. Alice Hunt is a constant source of encouragement, friendship and inspiring discussion. Charlotte Merton generously gave her time and expertise to read through the completed manuscript. Jane Eade, Sebastian Edwards, Olivia Fryman, Sasha Handley, Maria Hayward, Carole Levin and Nigel Llewellyn have also responded helpfully to questions and queries. James McConnachie has been a hugely helpful and discerning reader during the book’s early stages and Jo Browning Wroe has been a valuable library comrade and supportive friend. Rebecca Stott has remained a great mentor and friend, who continues to ask difficult questions and support my writing. Rebecca and I have hosted regular ‘salons’ with historical writers and so I have had the benefit and privilege of inspiring conversation with the very best practitioners of their craft, including Sarah Dunant, Philippa Gregory, Stella Tillyard, Tom Holland, Juliet Gardiner, Kate Summerscale, Malcolm Gaskill and David Kynaston.

Bloomsbury has proved once again to have been the friendliest, most supportive, efficient and ambitious publisher that I could have imagined. It is a publishing house full of energy, vision and commitment to books and their authors. Michael Fishwick is a brilliantly inspiring and insightful editor, a wise critic, and a loyal supporter of me and the book. Anna Simpson is a hidden gem – friendly, helpful, organised and efficient; she quite simply makes things happen behind the scenes and curates the transformation from manuscript to printed book. It has been a great pleasure and relief to work with Kate Johnson for the copyediting, and once again she has worked her magic with meticulous care and incisive comment. Ellen Williams and all the publicity team at Bloomsbury continue to do a fantastic job.

Catherine Clarke, my agent at Felicity Bryan Associates, has been all and more than an agent should be – honest, encouraging, supportive, and discerning. She is a very loyal and enthusiastic champion upon whom I rely hugely. My writing career to date has everything to do with her mentoring. Zoe Pagnamenta my US agent has proved equally committed to the book, as has Katie Haines of The Agency. My ‘home’ literary festival, Cambridge Wordfest, of which I am a proud patron, has been a place of great inspiration and fun during the long months of writing and research and the Festival Director Cathy Moore has been both a loyal supporter and a valued friend. My debts to other friends are equally great: Jim and Kate Godfrey, Rosie Peppin Vaughan, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Maureen Parry, Alice and James McConnachie, Jo Maybin, Emma Spearing, Chris Reynolds, Caelum Spearing, Layla Evans, Max Delderfield, Bluebelle Storm Evans Delderfield, Tiffany, Chris and Joshua Britton, Jacky Hess, Victoria Alcock, Rebecca Edwards Newman, Peter and Isobel Maddison, Nan James, Sandra Swarbrick and family. All have got used to my need for early nights, my preoccupied conversations and the general eccentricity that the process of writing and research brings. Linda and David Downes, Sally Downes and Lucy and Pete Gratton have also been continually interested and supportive of me and my writing. One notable absentee from my book launch will be the late Suzy Oakes who was always a great supporter of mine and a popular Cambridge figure.

My family have remained a constant source of love, support and encouragement. During the writing of the book we lost my grandfather, Eric Nason, whose much repeated refrain, ‘Have you finished the book yet?’ continues to resound in my head. I hope this book is fitting to his memory. Thanks are owed to my sister Amy and to Martin Inglis, and to my twin sister Emily who remains entirely unselfish in her support and encouragement. My niece Lily and nephews Sam and Bailiee have been refreshingly disinterested in the book and forced me to engage with life beyond the sixteenth century. I continue to rely on my parents, Celia and Paul Whitelock, who have been as unfailing in their love, concern and support as they have been in their desire for the book to be finished. Never has a final full stop been so highly anticipated or hard won.

Finally, I would like to thank Kate Downes who has continued to support me with unselfish patience, care and concern and upon whom I have depended enormously.

A shared achievement indeed.

Cambridge, April 2013

Index

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Note:
Abbreviations used in the index are: EI for Queen Elizabeth I; RDev for Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; RDu for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; MS for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots; ToL for the Tower of London.

Accession Day celebrations

Act against Conjuration … Witchcraft

Act for the Queen’s Surety

Act of Supremacy

Act of Uniformity

Act to Retain the Queen’s Majesty’s …

Adolphus, Duke of Holstein

Alba, Duke of

alchemy

Alençon (later Anjou), François, Duke of
see
Anjou (formerly Alençon), François, Duke

Allen, Cardinal William;
Admonition to the Nobility
 …

Andrada, Manuel de

animals, pet

Anjou (formerly Alençon), François, Duke of; EI’s poem about; in England; death; in
The Secret History of the Duke
 …

Anjou, Henri, Duke of
see
Henri III, King of France

Annais, John

Appletree, Thomas

Arden, Edward

Aretino, Pietro: sonnets

Ariosto, Ludovico:
Orlando Furioso

Arte of English Poesie, The

Arundel, Henry Fitzalan, Earl of

Arundell, Charles

Arundell, Sir Matthew

Ascham, Roger

Ashley, John

Ashley, Kat: in EI’s early life; in ToL; Lady of the Bedchamber; and plot re King Erik; death; and Arthur Dudley claim

assassination of EI: attempts and plots, (Babington), (Stafford), (Squires); endorsed by Pope;risk

Aston, Sir Roger

Audley End, Essex

Aylmer, John, Bishop of London

Babington, Anthony

Bacon, Lady Anne

Bacon, Sir Francis;
Declaration of the Practices
 …

Bacon, Sir Nicholas

Bacton, Herefordshire

Bagot, Antony

Bailey, Walter

Bailly, Charles

Ballard, John

Banks, John:
The Unhappy Favourite

Barlow, William, Bishop of Lincoln

Barnwell, Robert

Bayly, Dr

Baynard’s Castle

Beale, Robert; ‘Discourse after the Great Murder…’

Beaufort, Lady Margaret

Beaumont, Comte de (French ambassador)

Bedchamber; of Mary I; T. Seymour in; security; Nonsuch, RDev bursts in; St James Palace; Whitehall; after death of EI;
see also
Ladies of the Bedchamber

bedfellows

Bedford House

beds

Beltran, Jean Baptista

Berney, Kenelm

Blackwood, Adam:
Martyre de la royne d’Escosse

Blount, Sir Michael

Blower, Henry

Bocosel, Pierre de

Bodin, Jean

Boleyn, Anne; Catholic view of

Boleyn, Mary (later Carey)

Bolton Castle, Yorkshire

‘Bond of Association’

Book of Common Prayer

Boorde, Andrew

Borth, François

Bothwell, James Hepburn, Earl of

Bracciano, Duke of

Bradbelt, Dorothy

Brandon, Mary, Duchess of Suffolk

Breuner, Caspar, Baron von Rabenstein

Brinkley, Stephen

Britten, Benjamin:
Gloriana

Bromley, Sir Thomas

Brooke, William, Baron Cobham

Brown, Maurice

Browne, Anthony, 1st Viscount Montague

Bruno, Giordano

Brydges, Eleanor

Brydges, Elizabeth

Bullinger, Henry

Burchet, Peter

Burcot, Dr

Burgh, Frances, Lady

Cahill, Hugh

Camden, William

Campbell, Hugh

Campeggio, Cardinal

Campion, Edmund

Carew, Sir George

Carey, Henry, Lord Hunsdon

Carey, Katherine (later Lady Knollys)
see
Knollys, Katherine, Lady

Carey, Katherine (niece of Lady Knollys)

Carey, Philadelphia (
née
Knollys), Lady Scrope

Carey, Robert

Carleton, Dudley

Carlisle Castle

Carlos, Don

Casimir, Duke of

Castelnau, Michel de, French ambassador

Catherine, Princess of Sweden

Catherine de Medici; EI’s letter to

Catholic Church and Catholicism; EI’s early life; on EI’s accession; Huguenot massacres; Popes; EI excommunicated,; ‘Enterprise of England’; and James VI/I

Catholics: in England; legislation against (on EI’s accession), (
1562
), (
1571
), (
1581
); plots and threat, (‘devouring lions’) (after Mary arrives in England), (Parry), (Babington), (Stafford), (Squires); priests in England; exiles and Oath of Allegiance;
see also
Jesuits

Catholic League

Cavali, Marin

Cave, Margaret: wedding

Cavendish, Richard

Cecil, Sir Robert; and RDev; correspondence with James VI; at death of EI

Cecil, Thomas, Lord Burghley

Cecil, Sir Thomas