swr Raleigh Married Elizabeth Throckmorton Secretly

Raleigh sly got a prize lady-in-waiting pregnant
married beloved Elizabeth Throckmorton secretly
one of monarch Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting
without Queen Elizabeth I's permission in 1591
husband wife were sent to the Tower of London.

poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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