She had a wonderful gift for teasing out the voices of the past

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Charlotte Gauthier is a historian of late medieval/ early modern religious conflict

In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

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