Cecily Bulstrode
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Cecily Bulstrode was a courtier and subject of poetry. She was the daughter of Edward Bulstrode (1550- 1595) and Cecily Croke; she was a cousin of Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford
, in whose household she was a member in 1605. Two years later, she served as Queen consort Anne of Denmark's
gentlewoman of the Bedchamber.
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford
Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras...
, in whose household she was a member in 1605. Two years later, she served as Queen consort Anne of Denmark's
Anne of Denmark
Anne of Denmark was queen consort of Scotland, England, and Ireland as the wife of King James VI and I.The second daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark, Anne married James in 1589 at the age of fourteen and bore him three children who survived infancy, including the future Charles I...
gentlewoman of the Bedchamber.