The Real Elizabeth Hatton
The reality is that Elizabeth Hatton was not murdered in Bleeding Heart Yard in 1626. Born Elizabeth Cecil, she was the daughter of Lord Burghley’s eldest son, Thomas Cecil. She married Sir William Newport alias Hatton after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth Gawdy. After Sir William Hatton's death in 1597, she married Sir Edward Coke, but kept the Hatton name, and died in 1646.
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