Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters?

Add as preferred source Work on Elizabeth I's letters has focused on identifying the English queen's "voice" within them. Yet they were often the products of collaboration between Elizabeth and her secretaries. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Wikimedia Commons under public domain On February 10, 1586, Elizabeth I wrote one of her most famous letters: a furious rebuke to her favorite, Robert Dudley , First Earl of Leicester. The Tudor queen sharply reprimanded Leicester for disobeying her.