BESS : The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter. Hardcover Book.
BESS : The Life of Lady Ralegh, Wife to Sir Walter: Hardcover (2004) by Anna Beer. EX-LIBRARY. Constable & Robinson. From the start of her liaison with Sir Walter Ralegh, Beth Throckmorton, maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I, was thrown into the dangerous and violent political world of Elizabethan England. Overlooked by the court and high society, dismissed with no rights as a woman in a fiercely male establishment, she was yet forced to play for high stakes. Her acute intelligence and commer