lady in waiting

Lady's In Waiting

• Bes Of Harwick - Married four times, attractive, rich, 2nd most powerful woman next to the queen.
• Cathryn Swintherd- Married into status(Hugh Swintherd), had an affair, mistress to John
• Kat Ashley- With Elizabeth since she was a child, lady of the bed chamber.
• Blanch Parrie- crazy
• Elizabeth Throckmorton- Lady in waiting, Sir Walter
• Vavasour - Lady in waiting, mistress of earl.
• Elizabeth Bridges- Distressed.

Bes Of Harwick

• 8 children - 5 girls and 3 boys.
• Married four times - 1 Robert Barlow, - 2 Courtier Sir William Cavendish, - 3 Sir William St Loe, - 4 George Talbot.
• Each husband richer than the last.
• Money dealer, property dealer, exploiter of iron works, coal mines and glass work, ended up richest woman in England after the queen.
• She built Chatsworth house and Harwick Hall.
• Four of her children survived adulthood.
• Arbella her granddaughter felt like a prisoner being raised by Bess.
• She arranged an engagement between arbella 8 years old and Lord Denbigh the 2 year old son of Earl of Leicester and Lettice Knolly.
• Queen Elizabeth sent Arbella away from Bess.
• Edward William tried to poison Bess.
• Bess was jealous that Earl was spending so much time with Mary she decided to become Mary's best friend.
• Elizabeth Cavendish married Charles Lennox, without Queen Elizabeth's consent, she summoned Bess to the tower of London.