. Historical portraits ... 554, went abroad and distinguished himself with his brother inthe campaign against France in 1557. He received some kind-ness from Philip H, but his real fortunes began when Eliza-beth on her accession made him her Master of the Horse. Thatshe loved him and continued to love him in spite of frequentquarrels is a theory quite tenable; but the opposite theory, thatshe loved no one at all and merely employed Lord Robert asa stalking-horse against other suitors, is also tenable. Lady AmyDudley died suddenly in 1560 at Cumnor, near Oxford, in circum-stances that were at l
. Historical portraits ... 554, went abroad and distinguished himself with his brother inthe campaign against France in 1557. He received some kind-ness from Philip H, but his real fortunes began when Eliza-beth on her accession made him her Master of the Horse. Thatshe loved him and continued to love him in spite of frequentquarrels is a theory quite tenable; but the opposite theory, thatshe loved no one at all and merely employed Lord Robert asa stalking-horse against other suitors, is also tenable. Lady AmyDudley died suddenly in 1560 at Cumnor, near Oxford, in circum-stances that were at least suspicious, and part of the suspicioninvolved not only Lord Robert but the Queen as well. It is certainthat the Queen carried open, but perhaps never secret flirtationwith her Master of the Horse to the verge of impropriety; himalmost alone of her courtiers she rewarded by really rich gifts ofCrown lands, and him, in a moment of weakness, she named Protectorof the realm in the event of her death, when she had her only. ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER From the portrait in tlie National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown Face /. 156 ROBERT DUDLEY, EARL OF LEICESTER 157 recorded illness in 1562. That he on his part set himself to marrythe Queen by all means in his power admits of no doubt; hetold Spanish ambassadors that he would bring England back toCatholicism if Philip would help him to her hand ; and he musthave been considerably flabbergasted when the Queen gravelyproposed him. as a husband for her rival, Mary Queen of order to fit him for the post she created him in 1564 Earl ofLeicester. Of Cecil, as of the old Catholic nobles, Leicester, asprime favourite, was the incessant bugbear and terror; yet he wasobliged sadly to confess that Cecil could do more with his mistressin an hour than he could do in seven years; and so he graduallypulled away from his temporary connexion with the Catholics, andbegan to court the rising Puritan party in Church and State:thus he
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