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    Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, later styled Penelope Blount (née Devereux; January 1563 – 7 July 1607) was an English court office holder. She served as lady-in-waiting...
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    mother to the courtiers Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Lady Penelope Rich. By her second marriage to Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl...
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    husband of Penelope Devereux, whom he divorced in 1605 on the grounds of her adultery. Rich was the son and heir of Robert Rich, 2nd Baron Rich (c. 1538–1581)...
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    mistress Lady Rich, of whom he acknowledged the paternity, included: Penelope Rich (1592–?) – despite her surname, she was a daughter of Penelope by Blount...
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    Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Prolific in Spanish and English-language films, she has received various accolades, including...
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  • Elizabeth Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton Shirley Dixon as Penelope Rich, Lady Rich Judith South as Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex Raf De La...
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    politicians. Returning to England in 1575, Sidney met Penelope Devereux (who would later marry Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick). Although much younger, she...
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    is given in her honour. Scene 2: Essex's house Essex's sister Lady Penelope Rich meets Mountjoy for an illicit tryst in the garden. Essex and his wife...
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    Panther Books ISBN 0-586-03379-3 Freedman, Sylvia (1983): Poor Penelope: Lady Penelope Rich. An Elizabethan Woman The Kensal Press ISBN 0-946041-20-2 Girouard...
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    Robert Rich was the eldest son and third of seven children born to Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (1559–1619) and his first wife Penelope (1563–1607)...
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    Mountjoy (1563-1606) and his partner Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (1563-1607). His mother was married to Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick; they separated...
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  • The Affectionate Shepherd, dedicated with familiar devotion to Penelope Rich, Lady Rich. This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas...
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    became known to reality-television audiences on the 2005 series, Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive, on which she earned money for charity. In February 2007, a...
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  • (subscription required) Retrieved 04-04-2010 Freedman, Sylvia (1983): Poor Penelope: Lady Penelope Rich. An Elizabethan Woman The Kensal Press; ISBN 0-946041-20-2...
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  • ISSN 0080-4401. JSTOR 3678375. S2CID 178338794. Freedman, Sylvia: Poor Penelope: Lady Penelope Rich. An Elizabethan Woman (Abbotsbrook, Bucks: Kensal Press, 1983...
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  • in London he set sonnets from Astrophel and Stella dedicated to Lady Penelope Rich. chansons and airs de cour in French, Italian and Gascon language for...
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  • 6 – Achille Gagliardi, Italian theologian (born 1537) July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich, English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"...
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  • Giovanni. On 8 June 1953 she made her Royal Opera, London debut as Lady Penelope Rich in the world premiere of Britten's Gloriana, a production organised...
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  • Blackness at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Palace, the cast includes Penelope Rich and Lady Mary Wroth. January 7 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's...
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    1st Baronet, and his first wife Lady Penelope Rich, daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and Lady Penelope Devereux. His mother died in 1613, and...
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    Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He...
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  • Opera in 1972 as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. Her account of Lady Penelope Rich in a 1984 performance of Gloriana at English National Opera was televised...
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    Countess of Bedford and her mother. The second is divided between Lady Penelope Rich, Sidney's Stella, and his daughter, Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland....
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    to Lady Penelope, thought to be Penelope Devereux (1563–1607), later Lady Rich, the wife of Robert Rich, 3rd Baronet. Sidney and Lady Penelope had been...
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    Mary, Countess of Pembroke; she was a close friend of Essex's sisters Penelope Rich and Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland, and the latter named...
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  • Josephine A. (1985). "The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich". English Literary Renaissance. 15 (1): 59. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6757...
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  • Crazy Rich Asians is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated that his intention in writing the novel was to "introduce a contemporary...
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  • Mountbatten's grandmother. He stated she was a lesbian. Mountbatten married Penelope Anne Vere Thompson (born Salisbury, Wiltshire, 17 March 1966), only daughter...
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    invite some English ladies. She brought the Countess of Bedford, Lady Penelope Rich, Lady Susan de Vere, and "Lady Dorothy", probably Dorothy Hastings....
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    8th Baron Mountjoy (1563–1606). Penelope was sister of the Earl of Essex, executed for treason in 1601, making Rich a cousin to future Parliamentarian...
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