Delicately chiselled Anglo-Norman features, smooth, fair cheek, a faint moustache, blue eyes, and a mass of amber-colored hair," distinguished him among the handsome men of a court where handsome men were in great request.
He spent some time at the court of Charles IX.

of France--which, however, he left suddenly, shocked and disgusted by the massacre of St.
Bartholomew's Eve--and extended his travels into Germany.

The queen held him in the highest esteem--although he was disliked by the Cecils, the constant rivals of the Dudleys; and when he was elected to the crown of Poland, the queen refused him permission to accept, because she would not lose "the brightest jewel of her crown--her Philip," as she called him to distinguish him from her sister Mary's Philip, Philip II.

of Spain.

A few words will finish his personal story.