
Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley—the love affair immortalized in Philippa Gregory’s The Virgin’s Lover —but nearly fifty years have passed since a book has been dedicated solely to their lifelong love. Soon...

View our feature on Sarah Gristwood's Elizabeth & Leicester . Though the story has been told on film--and whispered in historic gossip--this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen's attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester...

