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Frances, Countess of Somerset Larkin, William, c.1585–1619 National Portrait Gallery, London Photo credit: National ...
Anne Turner is a character in Thomas Costain 's 1942 historical novel For My Great Folly . Jean Plaidy's novel, The Murder in the Tower, published in 1964, mentions Anne Turner as one of the characters involved in the Overbury Murder. Anne Turner is mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter as an "especial friend" of Mistress ...
Frances Carr, Comtesse de Somerset (1592 - 23 août 1632), née Frances Howard, était noble anglaise et femme de Robert Carr (1er comte de Somerset). Elle est la plus connue comme figure centrale du Scandale Overbury, dans lequel elle était trouvée coupable de l'assassinat du poète et homme d'État, Thomas Overbury .
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Even the powerful Carr, hardly experienced for the responsibilities thrust upon him and often dependent on his intimate friend Overbury for assistance with government papers, fell into the Howard camp. He had done this after beginning an affair with Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, daughter of the Earl of Suffolk.
Frances's marriage to Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, was annulled, and she married Carr, by then Earl of Somerset, in December of that year. However, after two years it emerged that Overbury had been poisoned in the Tower; the Somersets were indicted, and Frances confessed her involvement, although, after being found guilty, both were pardoned and released.
19 de jun. de 2018 · English: A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset – British nobleman and politician (1587–1645)
