A TRIXIE SPECIAL Brothers and Sisters of The Shakespeare Code…… Your Cat would like to recount….  AN  OLD ROMANTIC MYTH THAT DATES FROM THE REIGN OF GOOD QUEEN BESS…. • Elizabeth I, it is said…… ……gave her much younger lover the Earl of Essex…… …….a ring to wear on his finger….. ……..as he went off … Continue reading Queen Elizabeth, the Earl of Essex and the Ring. Proving an old, romantic myth is true…