A Phoenix Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Spanish Ambassador Feria On 10 May 1559 Spanish Ambassador De Feria reported to Philip that he had forgotten to write on St George’s Day when Norfolk, the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl of Rutland and Lord Robert, were created Knights of the Order. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Dudley's Power at Court #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Bishop De Quadra The Spanish Ambassador De Feria was succeeded by Bishop De Quadra who in November 1559 reported to Philip II that Lord Robert was planning to poison his wife and foretold in a manner that would characterise much of her reign that Queen Elizabeth was merely playing with the powers of Europe and her royal suitors: #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 20 minutes ago, A Phoenix said: Bishop De Quadra The Spanish Ambassador De Feria was succeeded by Bishop De Quadra who in November 1559 reported to Philip II that Lord Robert was planning to poison his wife and foretold in a manner that would characterise much of her reign that Queen Elizabeth was merely playing with the powers of Europe and her royal suitors: #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA Hi A. Phoenix. This is such a remarkable quote! Without your erudition I'd be stumbling in the dark. Thank you!!! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allisnum2er Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 I would like to share with you something that I noticed yesterday in Minerva Britanna, in connection with the subject of Actaeon and the Pregnancy Portrait, an Emblem that bring food for thoughts 🙂 https://archive.org/details/minervabritannao00peac/page/175/mode/2up?view=theater This Emblem is dedicated to Anne Dudley (Lady Russell) who was a close friend of Elizabeth I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Russell,_Countess_of_Warwick 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Cecil's Cool Reception After negotiating the Treaty of Edinburgh drawn up on 5 July 1560 between the English commission headed by Cecil, the Scottish Lords of the Congregation, and French representatives of Francis II of France, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had a strong claim to the English throne, Cecil headed back to London where he was met with a cool reception from Elizabeth and her lover Dudley. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 A Situation with Enormous Implications While Cecil had been away Elizabeth and Dudley’s love affair and sexual relationship further intensified resulting in momentous developments behind the scenes that soon came to his attention. The so-called Virgin Queen was pregnant by Dudley, a situation which had potentially enormous implications for the succession and the security of the country, and balance of power in Europe. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 1 2 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 The Royal Secret Who knew what and when cannot now be precisely determined but we can be fairly confident that it was known to Principal Secretary of State Cecil and his brother-in-law Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon, some senior members of the Privy Council and other key figures in the Elizabethan administration, and at some point, a number of foreign ambassadors and diplomats. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 The Secret Spreads to the English Public Beyond those in the knowledge circle news and rumours began to spread outside of the court and around the country fanned and repeated in the mouths of members of the great English public. It would not take too long before rumours of a royal pregnancy, openly spoken of in different parts of the country reached the ears of the Secretary of State Cecil. He obtained a formal written report dated 13 August 1560 from Lord Rich stating that one Mother Dowe of Brentwood had openly asserted that Queen Elizabeth was with child by Robert Dudley, the first of at least eight offenders to be sent to prison, for even daring to say it out loud. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 1 2 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Elizabeth's Pregnancy Concerned with the widespread nature of these statements both Cecil and his brother-in-law Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon and senior members of the Elizabethan regime were determined to dampened down any further talk of Elizabeth’s pregnancy among the people of her realm but more importantly as the days passed foreign ambassadors and diplomats caught wind of the situation and it was now spreading across the major courts of Europe. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 2 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Increasing Political Danger The developing circumstances were becoming increasingly dangerous for Elizabeth in terms of protecting her life and her crown. If she were to have a bastard son, the consequences would doubtless be very grave in a country bitterly divided politically and religiously. There would almost certainly have been a Roman Catholic reaction, both at home and abroad, and even some of her own Protestant subjects might favour a Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots when faced with the prospect of an adulterous queen pregnant with an illegitimate child conceived out of wedlock with a widely unpopular man still married to another woman. Elizabeth and Dudley were now in a serious bind and were looking for a solution to a mounting problem that threatened to completely overwhelm and consume them. One critically important part of the problem was Lady Amy Robsart Dudley, whose days as things then stood at the outset of August 1560, were fatally numbered-she was a dead woman walking. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 The Death of Lady Amy Robsart Dudley On 8 September 1560 Lady Amy Robsart Dudley was found dead with a broken neck at the bottom of some stairs at Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire. The house was leased by Anthony Foster, chief controller of Dudley’s expenses, who lived there with his wife. At Cumnor Lady Dudley had a household of ten servants and two other gentlewomen, a Mrs Owen and a Mrs. Odingsells. On the day of her death with Mr and Mrs Foster already absent Lady Dudley is said to have given permission for her entire household to visit Abingdon fair. Three ladies decided not to go to Abingdon and according to one report they were all playing a game of cards when Lady Dudley heard her name called from the hall-which she thought sounded like the voice of her husband Dudley. Leaving the room she went to the staircase landing and lent over the balustrade which apparently gave way, and she fell headfirst onto the stone paving below. Later in the day when her servants returned from Abingdon they found Lady Dudley dead at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck and two wounds to her head. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Dudley & Elizabeth Implicated At the time Elizabeth and Dudley were together at Windsor Castle and were told of her demise by messenger on 9 September. The coroner’s jury found Lady Dudley had died of a fall and delivered a verdict of accidental death. It was however widely suspected Dudley had orchestrated her death and according to the anonymous author of Leicester’s Commonwealth, the earliest printed account of the tragedy, Dudley used for his instrument his follower Sir Richard Verney who carried out the murder. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA 3 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 36 minutes ago, A Phoenix said: Elizabeth's Pregnancy Concerned with the widespread nature of these statements both Cecil and his brother-in-law Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon and senior members of the Elizabethan regime were determined to dampened down any further talk of Elizabeth’s pregnancy among the people of her realm but more importantly as the days passed foreign ambassadors and diplomats caught wind of the situation and it was now spreading across the major courts of Europe. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA Hi A. Phoenix. Riveting story. Elizabethan history has never been told like this before! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 36 minutes ago, A Phoenix said: Increasing Political Danger The developing circumstances were becoming increasingly dangerous for Elizabeth in terms of protecting her life and her crown. If she were to have a bastard son, the consequences would doubtless be very grave in a country bitterly divided politically and religiously. There would almost certainly have been a Roman Catholic reaction, both at home and abroad, and even some of her own Protestant subjects might favour a Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots when faced with the prospect of an adulterous queen pregnant with an illegitimate child conceived out of wedlock with a widely unpopular man still married to another woman. Elizabeth and Dudley were now in a serious bind and were looking for a solution to a mounting problem that threatened to completely overwhelm and consume them. One critically important part of the problem was Lady Amy Robsart Dudley, whose days as things then stood at the outset of August 1560, were fatally numbered-she was a dead woman walking. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA Wow! When you put ALL the facts into context like this the period comes alive - the intensely real drama that culminated in Francis Bacon's birth. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 39 minutes ago, A Phoenix said: The Death of Lady Amy Robsart Dudley On 8 September 1560 Lady Amy Robsart Dudley was found dead with a broken neck at the bottom of some stairs at Cumnor Place, Oxfordshire. The house was leased by Anthony Foster, chief controller of Dudley’s expenses, who lived there with his wife. At Cumnor Lady Dudley had a household of ten servants and two other gentlewomen, a Mrs Owen and a Mrs. Odingsells. On the day of her death with Mr and Mrs Foster already absent Lady Dudley is said to have given permission for her entire household to visit Abingdon fair. Three ladies decided not to go to Abingdon and according to one report they were all playing a game of cards when Lady Dudley heard her name called from the hall-which she thought sounded like the voice of her husband Dudley. Leaving the room she went to the staircase landing and lent over the balustrade which apparently gave way, and she fell headfirst onto the stone paving below. Later in the day when her servants returned from Abingdon they found Lady Dudley dead at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck and two wounds to her head. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA Never read a more detailed account of poor Amy's murderous demise. Great illustrative painting! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 41 minutes ago, A Phoenix said: Dudley & Elizabeth Implicated At the time Elizabeth and Dudley were together at Windsor Castle and were told of her demise by messenger on 9 September. The coroner’s jury found Lady Dudley had died of a fall and delivered a verdict of accidental death. It was however widely suspected Dudley had orchestrated her death and according to the anonymous author of Leicester’s Commonwealth, the earliest printed account of the tragedy, Dudley used for his instrument his follower Sir Richard Verney who carried out the murder. #ElizabethI #VirginQueen #RobertDudley #FrancisBacon #RobertDevereux #PregnancyPortrait #HamptonCourt #RoyStrong #FrancisCarr Paper https://www.academia.edu/45006558/The_Pregnancy_Portrait_of_Queen_Elizabeth_I_and_The_Secret_Royal_Birth_of_Francis_Bacon_Concealed_Author_of_the_Shakespeare_Works Part 1 https://youtu.be/AFSxRYGxgjk Part 2 https://youtu.be/HWpuy13KHiA Dudley and the Queen are like Lord and Lady MacBeth, plotting and executing the death of an innocent person in order to advance their greedy desires. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Hi Eric, We would venture to say that the life of Lord Bacon is arguably the most dramatic life ever lived and in our view served as an indispensible emotional, psychological and intellectual maelstrom for his Shakespeare poems and plays, especially the great tragedies of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. 2 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Hi Eric, We have often thought that Lord and Lady Macbeth might at least in part be dramatic refractions of Elizabeth and Dudley. We also surmise that Lady Macbeth might well have been a dramatic fusion of Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots. 2 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Hi Eric, The myth of Elizabethan history will pale into insignificance when the full truth of the period is told! 1 1 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Phoenix Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 Hi Eric, From the day he was born with all its secrecy and implications his life was filled with the kind of intense drama that truly belongs in an epic film about the Great One or of course one of his Shakespeare plays. Could you just imagine a Shakespeare play by the Great One telling the true concealed story of the life and reign of Elizabeth. It would be absolutely spellbinding and riveting. 1 1 https://aphoenix1.academia.edu/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrY7wzlXnZiT1Urwx7jP6fQ/videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allisnum2er Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Hi A Phoenix, I second Eric regarding the second to none virtuosity with which you provide us on a daily basis with a full account of all this historical events and all their entanglements. Beyond your crazy amount of knowledge, you really are Master(s) of figure rendering and narrative art. Thank you for all ! ❤️ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light-of-Truth Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Imagine the quiet conversations between Nicolas and Lady Ann Bacon when Francis was a baby. 3 T A A A A A A A A A A A T 157 www.Light-of-Truth.com 287 <-- 1 8 8 1 1 O 1 1 8 8 1 --> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Roberts Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 (edited) 1 hour ago, Light-of-Truth said: Imagine the quiet conversations between Nicolas and Lady Ann Bacon when Francis was a baby. "Whose turn is it to change the nappy?" 🙂 Edited March 11 by Eric Roberts 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allisnum2er Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 31 minutes ago, Eric Roberts said: "Whose turn is it to change the nappy?" 🙂 Or more precisely : " Whose turn is it to change the Royal nappy?" 😄 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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