An Elizabethan Scandal: Amy Dudley’s Death

An Elizabethan Scandal: Amy Dudley’s Death

(This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Royals Monthly, December 2024) Picture the scene. It’s 1559, and at Whitehall Palace, England’s newly crowned Queen Elizabeth, the vivacious, redheaded daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is dancing with...