The Original Staircase: The Death of Amy Dudley

On the 8th September 1560, Amy Dudley - wife of Elizabeth I's favourite Robert - was found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Was it an accident... suicide... murder? This event still confuses investigators and a definitive answer remains elusive, but today I am laying out the facts of the case (as we have them)!

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]

The Original Staircases Theme: An Upsetting Theme - The Descent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Screenshot of Google search for “death of Amy Dudley”

Netflix, The Staircase poster image

Levina Teerlinc’s portrait miniature of an unknown lady, c.1550. She might be Amy Robsart at the time of her wedding to Robert Dudley; in the collection of Yale University.

Elizabeth I in her coronation robes (c.1600-1610 – a copy of a lost original of c.1599); in the National Portrait Gallery.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (after 1585); in the National Portrait Gallery.

Nicholas Hilliard’s miniature of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1576); in the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, English school (1605–1608); on show at Knole, Kent (National Trust collections).

Portrait of Edward VI by circle of William Scrots (c. 1550); in private ownership, unknown location.

Antonis Mor portrait of Mary I of England (1555); in the Museo del Prado.

The Streatham Portrait of Lady Jane Grey (1590s); in the National Portrait Gallery.

William Frederick Yeames’ The Death of Amy Robsart (1877); in the Tate.

Portrait of Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, Attributed to Steven van der Meulen (c. 1560-1565); in The Wallace Collection, Sixteenth Century Gallery.

Quoted texts:
From the National Archives: Coroner’s report into the death of Amy Robsart, August 1561 (KB 9/1073/f.80).

The letter Amy Dudley wrote to her London tailor on 24 August 1560, 15 days before her death.

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