Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

Alford has written a book on his discoveries ... spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I, believing it to be the "the first English secret service”. The 428-year-old dossier, titled "The names of the ...

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

Queen Elizabeth I’s reign was defined by power, strategy and an ironclad reputation — but one scandal threatened to shake the foundation of her carefully crafted image. Elizabeth I reigned ...

Queen Elizabeth I’s reign was defined by power, strategy and an ironclad reputation — but one scandal threatened to shake the foundation of her carefully crafted image. Elizabeth I reigned from 1558 ...