Many of the leading figures at the Elizabethan court, like the queen’s chief minister, William Cecil, Lord Burghley and the royal favourite Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, need no introduction. However, there were many other prominent men at the Elizabethan court, some of whom remain obscure even to Elizabethan historians. In the following blog, Dr Andrew Thrush, the editor of our House of Lords 1558-1603 … Continue reading The man who would be king (-consort): Henry Fitzalan, earl of Arundel