Hoping to win the hand of the Queen, Dudley spent a fortune on the event. According to new sources, the party "lasted for three weeks of music, masques, morris dancing, bearbaiting, hunting, lavish banquets and extravagant firework displays. Historians call it the high watermark of Tudor culture."
Party like it's 1575!
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008-01-04 22:39
More than 400 years ago, Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, threw the party of parties, a three-week long bash at Kenilworth Castle for Elizabeth I.
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