English Heritage
Season 1 • Episode 3: The Queen, Her Lover and His Castle • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: The Queen, Her Lover and His Castle
May 8, 2009 • 60 min
Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire is not much more than a picturesque ruin but once it was home to Lord Robert Dudley who, in 1575, built a garden for a visit by Elizabeth I. Only one piece of written evidence survives about how it looked, which includes details of an obelisk and a fountain as the centrepiece, so in an attempt by English Heritage to re-create the original, problems of all sorts have arisen. Has the historical validity of the exercise been undermined?
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