Elizabeth Hatton served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England, Anne of Denmark.
11 Facts About Elizabeth Hatton
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Elizabeth Hatton was the daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and Dorothy Neville, and the granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
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Elizabeth Hatton was the wife of Sir William Hatton and later of Sir Edward Coke.
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Elizabeth Hatton Cecil was the daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and Dorothy Neville.
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Elizabeth Hatton was twenty-six years younger than Coke and had a disposition that was hot tempered and articulate.
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Elizabeth Hatton travelled to Scotland to meet the incoming Queen, Anne of Denmark, and it was said that the high-tempered beauty managed to please the withdrawn, strong-willed Queen.
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Elizabeth Hatton petitioned Sir Robert Cecil unsuccessfully for the position of keeper of the queen's jewels and to help dress her.
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Elizabeth Hatton had two daughters by her second husband: Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck, and Elizabeth Hatton Coke, who died unmarried.
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Elizabeth opposed the match and sent her daughter Frances away from Hatton House in Holborn without informing her husband.
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Elizabeth Hatton's plans were to keep Frances in a rented house with the help of her relatives.
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Elizabeth Hatton placed her daughter with Lady Withipole, daughter of Sir William Cornwallis, where she intended her daughter to be betrothed to Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford.