His mother, Lady Mary Sidney
, was a duke's daughter and sister of two brothers who became earls (one of them, Robert Dudley
, the Earl of Leicester and the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
)...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
Mary Sidney's mother, the former Lady Mary Dudley
, came from a powerful family. Her brothers, all players on the national scene, included Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. She lost her beauty by smallpox when...
