Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Part Nine (Queens Series)
Tudors Dynasty & Beyond
RedTop Media / Rebecca Larson
4.4 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This season I'll tell you the story written by Lucy Aikin (1781-1864) called Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. If you are a fan of Elizabeth I then you'll appreciate this early 19th century (1818) sentiment.
This is the final installment of this series, and focuses on the final days of Queen Elizabeth, and what those around her said happened.
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Credits:
Narrated by: Rebecca Larson
Written by: Lucy Aikin (1818)
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| 0:00.0 | The Tudors Dynasty Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the final installment from the book, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. |
| 0:14.0 | This series has parts of chapters from the 19th century book by Lucy Aiken. |
| 0:21.1 | You can find it in the public domain or find a link in the show notes. |
| 0:26.7 | All nine parts in this series are available wherever you get my podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | Just scroll through the episodes and look for Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. |
| 0:41.3 | In the last episode, we ended with Elizabeth upset with Essex. |
| 0:47.3 | In the end, her displeasure of Essex increased and his treasonable offenses caused him to lose his head. Every man that |
| 0:57.3 | Elizabeth had ever cared for was dead. All that was left was for Elizabeth |
| 1:03.4 | herself to join them in the great beyond. The closing scene of the long and eventful life of Queen Elizabeth is all that now remains to be described. |
| 1:21.6 | But that marked peculiarity of character and of destiny which attended her from the cradle pursues her to the grave and forbids us to hurry over as trivial and uninteresting the melancholy detail |
| 1:38.0 | notwithstanding the state of bodily and mental indisposition in which she was beheld by Harrington at the close of the |
| 1:46.5 | year 1602, the queen had persisted in taking her usual exercises of riding and hunting, |
| 1:55.3 | regardless of the inclemencies of the season. One day in January, she visited the Lord Admiral, probably at Chelsea, |
| 2:04.8 | and about the same time, she removed to her palace of Richmond. In the beginning of March, |
| 2:12.0 | her illness suddenly increased, and it was about this time that her kinsman, Robert Carey, arrived from Berwick to visit her. |
| 2:22.3 | In his own memoirs, he has thus related the circumstances which he witnessed on this occasion. |
| 2:31.0 | When I came to court, I found the queen ill-disposed, and she kept her inner lodging. |
| 2:37.9 | Yet she, hearing of my arrival, sent for me. |
| 2:42.0 | I found her in one of her withdrawing chambers, sitting low upon her cushions. |
| 2:49.1 | She called me to her. |
| 2:53.7 | I kissed her hand and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety and in health, which I wished might long continue. |
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