Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford born Harington portrait exhibited at the Queen`s House in Greenwich London 2020. She was a major aristocratic patron of the arts and literature in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, the primary non-royal performer in contemporary court masques, a letter-writer, and a poet. She was an adventurer shareholder in the Somers Isles Company, investing in Bermuda,
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