The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court (80 page)

Tichborne, Chidiock

Tider, Robin

Tilbury

tilts

Tinoco, Manuel Luis

Tomasin, Mistress

Tooker, William

Topcliffe, Richard

Tower of London: K. Ashley in; RDev in; EI in; K. Grey in; Norfolk in; Ralegh and wife in; Somerville in

Tracy, Henry

Treason Act

Treaty of Blois

Treaty of Edinburgh

Treaty of Nonsuch

Tregian, Francis

Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire

Twelfth Night:
1566
;
1594
;
1599

Tyburn, executions: Campion; Lee; Lopez; Squires; F. Throckmorton

Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of

Tyrwhit, Lady

Tyrwhit, Sir Robert

Vassay, France

Vaughan, John

Vaughan, Rowland

Vavasour, Thomas

Venturini, Borghese

Verstegan, Richard

Vestal Virgins

Virginia, Colony

Vives, Juan Luis

Waad, Armagil

Waad, William

Waldegrave, Sir Edward

Walpole, Henry

Walpole, Father Richard

Walsingham, Frances (later Sidney, then Devereux)

Walsingham, Sir Francis; intelligence network; and EI marriage negotiations; and Catholic plots; in Paris; death

Wanstead

Wardour Castle, Wiltshire

Warner, Sir Edward

Warwick, Anne Dudley (
née
Russell), Countess of

Warwick, 3rd Earl of
see
Dudley, Ambrose

Wedel, Lupold von

Wendy, Dr

Wentworth, Peter

Westminster

Westminster Abbey; funeral of EI; funeral of K. Knollys; funeral of B. Parry; Noel’s sermon; royal tombs

Westminster Hall, trials

Westminster Palace: Star Chamber

Westmoreland, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of

Westmoreland, Jane, Countess of

Weston, Father William

White, John

Whitehall Palace; history; Christmas,
1562
;
1562
petition; Christmas,
1564
; Keyes wedding; Anjou at; and assassination plots; military review at; Twelfth Night,
1594
; de Maisse at; tilt at,
1595
; Twelfth Night,
1599
; at RDev rebellion; on death of EI; banqueting hall; bed; Bedchamber; chapel royal; garden; Privy Chamber; window emblem

Whitgift, John, Archbishop of Canterbury

Whyte, Nicholas

Whyte, Rowland

William, Prince of Orange; death

Wilson, Thomas

Windsor; RDu at; during plague;
1565
; inscribed book at; smallpox at; 1586;
1593
; funeral of Lady Clinton

Windsor Great Park

witchcraft

women: sixteenth-century view of

Wotton, Sir Edward

Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of Southampton

Wyatt, Sir Thomas

Yates, Francis

York House

Yorke, Edmund

Younge, James

Zubiaur

Zuccaro, Frederigo

Zwetkowich, Adam von, Baron von Mitterburg

ALSO BY ANNA WHITELOCK

Mary Tudor

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne Whitelock received her PhD in history from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
.
She is now a senior lecturer in early modern history at Royal Holloway, University of London, and regularly appears on television and radio. She has written for the
Guardian
,
BBC History Magazine
,
History Today
, the
Times Literary Supplement
and
The New York Times
. Her bestselling debut,
Mary Tudor
, was published to critical acclaim in 2009;
The Queen’s Bed
is her second book. She lives in Cambridge.

Sarah Crichton Books

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Copyright © 2013 by Anna Whitelock

All rights reserved

Originally published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court

Published in the United States by Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Whitelock, Anna.

     The queen’s bed: an intimate history of Elizabeth’s court / Anna Whitelock. — First American edition.

         pages    cm

     “Originally published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court”—T.p. verso.

     Includes bibliographical references and index.

     ISBN 978-0-374-23978-7 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4299-4916-3 (ebook)

   1.  Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533–1603—Sexual behavior.   2.  Ladies-in-waiting—England—History—16th century.   3.  Queens—England—Social conditions—16th century.   4.  Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603.   5.  Great Britain—Court and courtiers—History—16th century.   6.  Great Britain—Politics and government—1558–1603.   I.  Title.

DA356 .W48 2014

942.05'5—dc23

2013036857

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