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From: Graeme Wall <>
Subject: Re: Lettice Knollys
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:58:50 +0000
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("Roy Stockdill") wrote:

> This thread seems to have wandered a long way from the original
> subject of Lettice Knollys (as usual!).
>
> I wonder if I could bring it back, since I confess I knew relatively
> little about her until this debate prompted my interest? As I said in
> a previous message, she must have been one heck of a woman to do all
> she did and somehow survive to the grand old age of 94 in the 16th
> and 17th centuries, considering how much she upset Elizabeth I.
> Reading about her colourful love life suggests that she was one of
> the great "Shady Ladies" of history, along with women like Nell
> Gwynne, Lily Langtry, Harriette Wilson and Caroline of Brunswick.
>

You've left out my favourite lady, Bess of Hardwicke, who got through no less
than 4 very rich husbands.

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Graeme Wall

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