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Oh I think if Elizabeth ever intended to remove Amy, she would have given the job to Wolsingham, her most discrete assassin. However I hink Elizabeth had no serious ambition of marrying Dudley or anyone else. She understood that marriage or even just naming a successor, would jeopardize her hold on the crown.

Not to discount any of the murder theories, but as one who has trekked up and down some of those winding stone staircases in castles, I can tell you that they are deadly. If she were wearing some sort of cloth slippers or shoes, a slip/fall would be so easy. However, I would think there would have been some bleeding from the nose from bouncing down the stairs and then there's those head wounds. But I've often thought those stone stairs were villainous.

An episode in the history of the Tudors that is essential to anyone studying the era. The dynamics of power and sex and social climbing and duplicitousness all blend to make this time in British history utterly fascinating. There are several documentaries regarding this set of events and this one is amongst the best. Still makes me laugh thinking about an incident where I sat next to an imperious woman at a luncheon in Southern California who declared she was an expert on Elizabethan England. I asked her if she thought Amy Robsart had been murdered. She looked at me like I had come from the moon and told me she didn't know anything about it. Sure...an expert! Hah!

It seems fairly obvious to me, that is was William Cecil and his underlings who had a hand in Amy’s death. From William telling the Spanish about “a plot” to kill Amy so the queen could marry Dudley, to the fact that he would lose his power if they did. He had the most to gain, and the least to lose if she died!

Unlike a lot of historians and historical presenters, Sarah Gristwood has the good common sense to wear gloves before handling old documents.

While I don't discredit the theory that Amy Dudley was murdered, I doubt either Robert not Elizabeth were involved. Amy's death and it's fallout stopped their romance in it's tracks. My theory is that it was an enemy of Robert Dudley that killed Amy and spread rumors that Robert did it so he could marry Elizabeth. The guilty party must be someone who wanted to halt Robert Dudley's rise and any chance he had to marry the Queen.

The day this video was released, September 7, 2021, is also the 488th birthday of Queen Elizabeth 1. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

I feel like Dudley’s enemies, like William Cecil for instance, would have had much to gain from framing Dudley for a murder in order to thwart his prospect of marrying the Queen… total speculation as we’ll never know what truly happened to poor Amy, but that’s my two cents!

Saying that Henry the eighth “simply” divorce Catherine of Aragon it is laughable at best. Simple is absolutely not the word for it.

I enjoy reading Phillipa Gregory- but I see her more as a historical romance writer, instead of one of historical scholarship. I may be wrong...I really don't know that much about her, just my impression from reading some of her books. It was brought up about Dudley's reaction when Amy died...marriages for love was not a thing then, but one of political or financial matters. So he was probably grieving differently than someone who was very close to their spouse. He barely visited her. Even today you cannot judge on how a person grieves. Grieving is a very personal thing.

I think Cecil set up the whole thing. From telling everyone how "healthy" Amy was to the murder itself. He was even close to someone who could arguably be considered the greatest assassin of the era.

I'm thinking that it was Cecil that killed Amy and not the Queen... Because he would have known that it would've been absolutely impossible for Elizabeth and Robert Dudley to have married after the death of his wife because of the suspicions that would follow them surrounding Amy's death. So I would put my money on it being Cecil and not Queen Elizabeth, that either killed her or had her killed to thwart any marriage plans between them.

It’s was her right hand man. The only guy who benefited was William Cecil.

Except Amy sent her servants away. Cecil, Dudley, or Elizabeth's people could not have known she would do that. She was instead acting like a woman having an affair. The extreme praying and sending the servants away sound like she planned something important and would explain the order of a new dress.

Falling down the stairs and having a broken neck are 1 thing. Suicide! But 2 deep blows to the back of the head🤔 that’s murder. She wanted the house completely empty. I believe she was either having an affair or knew someone was coming and they needed to be hidden from others for some reason. I don’t honestly believe it was Elizabeth or Robert.

Elizabeth needed him to stay married. She wanted to be queen and she did not want to have to marry. she said that since she was a little girl she did not want to get married. She wanted to have his constant attention and have her ego stroked but she would’ve never married him, she wanted to retain control. Doesn’t mean she didn’t love him but she wanted control.

Has anyone examined the idea that one of Dudley's opponents at court had Amy killed so that he would fall under suspicion, thereby preventing him from marrying the Queen?

Elizabeth was NEVER going to marry Dudley or any man. She had no reason to kill Amy.

Not much has changed with the love triangles in good old Britain 🦋

I think it was Cecil.