Who really wrote Elizabeth I’s angriest letter? New research reveals a hidden hand

The Ermine Portrait of Elizabeth I of England (1585) and a signed letter from Queen Elizabeth I to her future successor James I. Wiki Commons On February 10 1586, Elizabeth I wrote one of her most famous letters: a furious rebuke to her favourite, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. She sharply reprimanded him for disobeying her. “How contemptuously we conceive ourself to have been used by you,” Elizabeth rages. “We could never have imagined that a man […] extraordinarily favoured by us would…