Others provide candid detail about Bess's troubled marriage to her fourth husband, George Talbot. Nigel Wright, Hardwick Hall's collections manager, said: "The nice thing about these letters is ...

However, following Talbot’s death in 1590, Bess commissioned architect Robert Smythson to build a new Hardwick Hall, an English interpretation of Italian Renaissance style, in 1590-97.

Hardwick Hall, the 16th-century mansion built by Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury – Bess of Hardwick as she is better known – is the subject of a new series of Channel 5’s Secrets of ...

Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project" ...

Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder Mary S. Lovell, . . Norton, $27.95 (555pp) ISBN 978-0-393-06221-2. Born into the minor nobility, Bess of Hardwick rose to become one of the wealthiest and most ...

A unique insight into the political intrigues of Elizabethan England, as witnessed first-hand by “Bess of Hardwick”. Bess was the closest female friend and Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth I and, at the ...

Others provide candid detail about Bess's troubled marriage to her fourth husband, George Talbot. Nigel Wright, Hardwick Hall's collections manager, said: "The nice thing about these letters is ...

A unique insight into the political intrigues of Elizabethan England, as witnessed first-hand by “Bess of Hardwick”. Bess was the closest female friend and Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth I and, at the ...

More than 200 letters sent and received by Bess of Hardwick during her eventful life are to go on display in Derbyshire. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP.

More than 200 letters sent and received by Bess of Hardwick during her eventful life are to go on display in Derbyshire.