Bess of Hardwick: Elizabethan England's Richest Woman

Not Just the Tudors by History Hit

Jul 9, 202645:10Society & Culture

How did a Derbyshire gentlewoman become England’s richest woman after Elizabeth I? Why does she still fascinate us as her 500th anniversary approaches? From four marriages and vast wealth to Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth and...

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