Sienna Guillory as Lettice Knollys in BBC TV show The Virgin Queen PART 24 EPILOGUE

Sienna Guillory plays Lettice Knollys Elizabeth may have been a great monarch, but she wasn t always right, insists Sienna Guillory, the 30yearold Londoner who plays Lettice, the Queen s ladyinwaiting who eventually betrays her by marrying Elizabeth s great love, Dudley. I think the Queen s jealousy of Lettice s looks and her subsequent bullying was what drove Lettice to feel justified in her relationship with Dudley, Sienna muses. Originally, they were incredibly close; they wen