My Lady in Waiting

So the Lady in Waiting that I chose was Lettice Knollys. I felt that because she had an affair with the Queens lover I wanted to know more about what happened and really look into her life. Lettice Knollys was born to Catherine Carey and Sir Francis Knollys. Looking at Knollys family tree I found out that she is 1st cousin to Queen Elizabeth meaning she grew up around her. Knollys had 15 brothers and sisters meaning she came from a big family. At a young age she married a man called Walter Deveraux, Earl of Essex. Deveraux left to Ireland for two years, leaving Knollys by herself. However during the time that Deveraux was away, knollys almost started an affair with Robert Dudley, who at the time was the Queens lover! Scandalous! Deveraux died soon after he came home. At one point people thought that Knollys might have poisoned him but after medical examination his death was ruled as natural causes. Two years after Deveraux's death, Knollys and Dudley got married in secret, however the Queen soon found out and banished Knollys from court. The pair soon have a child together who unfortunately dies from an infection as an infant. Dudley takes a position as Governor General and moves to the Netherlands. This royally pisses of the Queen as well! (No pun intended.) While Dudley was in the Netherlands, Knollys had another affair with a man called Sir Christopher Blount. Like Deveraux when Dudley returned home he quickly died from Malaria and Knollys ends up marrying Blount. Knollys whole life must have based around gossip!!

After learning the back story to Lettice I decided on a few things that I think could be included with my final design. I think Lettice must have been quite a firey person so I think colours like red, yellow and orange could be included. I can also see her being quite a jealous person so maybe using shades of green could be quite good.

I am yet to make any face charts so you'll have to wait for those unfortunately!