She Regained Her Strength
Smallpox nearly killed the queen and left her traumatized for the rest of her life, but she eventually recovered. Lady Sidney had a far worse experience than I did. She was said to have gotten deformed as a result of her protracted vigil by the queen’s bedside as result of the disease.
She Regained Her Strength
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Lady Sidney
Lady Sidney’s appearance was believed to have been so adversely altered by smallpox that her own husband was shocked. “I left her a full fair lady in mine eye at least the fairest, and when I returned I found her as fowl a lady as the smallpox could make her,” Henry Sidney wrote in his memoirs of his wife.
Lady Sidney
