"Your most loving, most faithful servant. Robbie."
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Alicia Von Rittberg as Elizabeth Tudor with Jamie Blackley as Robert Dudley in Starz Becoming Elizabeth
aka the parents we deserved but never got
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Commission sketch for wonderful @theladyelizabeth. Thank you again for choosing me! <3333
More details about this artwork can be found here.
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"Beyond all this, and quite aside from the possibility that early in life the two had formed a bond of which we have been left no record, Elizabeth had reason to regard Dudley as a kindred spirit. Although the Duke of Northumberland died professing himself a Catholic, all his offspring embraced evangelical Protestantism. The male Dudleys who had not been executed were still being held in the Tower when Wyatt’s Rebellion led to Elizabeth’s confinement there. The experience, which for Elizabeth and Robert alike included the very real possibility of execution, gave them a profoundly memorable experience in common. Both were ultimately saved by the intercession of Philip after his arrival from Spain, Elizabeth as a safeguard against Mary Stuart, Dudley and his brothers because of their stature among England’s warrior elite and Philip’s wish for influential friends. Both remained deep in the political wilderness, however, as long as Queen Mary remained alive. The properties bestowed on her in her father’s will had made Elizabeth rich, and during Mary’s reign she was an inherently important personage as heir presumptive, but her life was quiet except for those moments of near-terror occasioned by official suspicion that she was involved in plots against the queen. Dudley, his conviction for treason set aside thanks to Philip’s intervention, settled into the peaceful existence of a country gentleman." - The Tudors: The Complete Story of England’s Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer
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THE DUDLEYS according to Starz
Edmund Dudley, president of King Henry VII's council as portrayed by Morgan Jones in The Spanish Princess
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland head of King Edward VI's council as portrayed by Jamie Parker in Becoming Elizabeth
Guildford Dudley, later consort to Jane Grey, disputed Queen of England as portrayed by Jacob Avery in Becoming Elizabeth
Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester, the longtime favourite of Queen Elizabeth I who often acted as her unofficial consort as portrayed by Jamie Blackley in Becoming Elizabeth
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Commission sketch for @theladyelizabeth.
AU: Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley's children - Anne, Henry (right) and Robbie (left) from her AU story about Elizabeth I: "White Bear, Red Rose".
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the death of amy robsart by william frederick yeames, exhibited in 1877
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Anne Marie Duff as Elizabeth I and Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley
The Virgin Queen (2005)
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