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 30-year-old Londoner who plays Lettice, the Queen’s lady-in-waiting 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