Chi uscì con Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield?

Douglas, Lady Sheffield (née Howard; 1542/1543 – 1608), was an English noblewoman, the lover of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and mother by him of explorer-cartographer Sir Robert Dudley, an illegitimate son.

Seventeen years after Leicester's death she claimed in litigation that she had secretly been his wife, although she had herself remarried while Leicester was still alive.

Robert Dudley, I conte di Leicester (24 giugno 1532 – Cornbury, 4 settembre 1588), fu per lungo tempo favorito della regina Elisabetta I d'Inghilterra.

Era il figlio minore di John Dudley, duca di Northumberland, che fu giustiziato nel 1553 per avere tentato di fare salire Lady Jane Grey al trono d'Inghilterra, e di Jane Guildford.