3.8K views · 682 reactions | Elizabeth Throckmorton was a lady-in-waiting who took the biggest risk at Elizabeth I’s court, she married without the Queen’s permission. ⚔️ Her secret match to Sir Walter Raleigh sparked royal fury and sent them both to the Tower.  Yet she stood by Raleigh through exile, disgrace, and loss. ❤️ A woman whose loyalty cost her everything, but never wavered. ✨ | History Roadshow | Facebook

Penshurst Place in Kent In 1552, Penshurst was granted to Sir William Sydney by Edward VI. It had passed into Crown hands when a previous owner, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was executed in Henry VIII’s reign, for treason. . William Sydney’s son, Henry married Robert Dudley’s sister, Mary. Mary, a lady in waiting to Elizabeth I and sister of his favourite, tended the Queen during her near death experience with smallpox. Mary caught the disease too, survived but was badly scarred and reti