Elizabeth I's Privy garden and her Royal 'Progress' of 1575. Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire.

            Queen Elizabeth I visited Robert Dudley at Kenilworth Castle in 1566 and again in 1568. However it was her final stay in 1575, complete with an entourage of several hundred, that has passed into legend. 

No expense was spared for the July visit which lasted for 19 days and is reputed to have cost Dudley £1000 per day, an amount that almost bankrupted him. Elizabeth brought an entourage of thirty-one barons and four hundred staff, and twenty horsemen a day arrived at the castle to communicate royal messages.
The splendour of the pageantry eclipsed anything that had ever been seen in England before. Apart from dancing, music, and hunting everyday in Dudley's new deer park, reached by his new gatehouse and bridge over an arm of the mere, Elizabeth was entertained with lavish displays and mock battles on the mere, upon which had been built a mock floating island complete with the legendary Lady of the Lake attended by nymphs, and a firework display that could be heard from twenty miles away. The festivities are said to have been the inspiration for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and it is possible that an impressionable eleven year old Shakespeare could have been in the huge crowds that gathered around the castle.
   

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Taken on: October 10, 2022

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