The Great Hall (not huge) of Hatfield Palace where the De Vere Society conference met. Those are tapestries on the sides, now very faded. The significance is that this is the Palace where Elizabeth was virtually held prisoner most of her young years, but where William Cecil (Susan Vere’s grandfather) announced to Elizabeth that she was now Queen of England.
Famous Shakespearian actor Sir Derek Jacobi reading a Shakespeare selection at the conference (in the great hall seen above)
Joella & Sir Derek
Gardens of Hatfield House (the great estate in the background, belonging to the Cecils) and Hatfield Palace.
Metropolitan Museum NYC — “Rainbow portrait” of Queen Elizabeth I, on loan to the exhibition from Hatfield House.
One of the earliest portraits of Queen Elizabeth I, 5 years after she became Queen in 1558.