Penshurst Place in Kent In 1552, Penshurst was granted to Sir William Sydney by Edward VI. It had passed into Crown hands when a previous owner, Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was executed in Henry VIII’s reign, for treason. . William Sydney’s son, Henry married Robert Dudley’s sister, Mary. Mary, a lady in waiting to Elizabeth I and sister of his favourite, tended the Queen during her near death experience with smallpox. Mary caught the disease too, survived but was badly scarred and reti

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