Elizabeth Raleigh
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Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh, was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I. Her secret marriage to Sir Walter Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for b
1595 portrait
Sir Walter Raleigh and his son Walter, as painted in 1602
Nicholas Throckmorton
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Sir Nicholas Throckmorton was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and later Scotland. He played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I of England and Mary,
Elizabeth Raleigh
…Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for both her and her husband. Elizabeth, known also as "Bess", was the daughter of the diplomat Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and Anne Carew. Her father, Nicholas, was the nephew of Sir Thomas Parr making him a cousin to the late Queen, Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King…
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, c. 1562 by Unknown Anglo-Netherlandish artist
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (1515–1571) An(no) Aetatis Suae 49 ("in the 49th year of his age", i.e. 1564). English, 16th-century Throckmorton Collection, Coughton Court, Warwickshire, Property of the National Trust, NTPL Ref. No. 153603
Throckmorton's monument in St. Katharine Cree parish church, London