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Amanda Foreman tells the story of the Stuart courtier, Frances, Countess of Essex.

Amanda Foreman | Published in History Today Volume 64 Issue 1 January 2014

Frances, Countess of Somerset, with her second husband, Robert Carr, whom she married in December 1613. Getty Images/British Library

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