14. Queen Elizabeth considered Raleigh to be ungrateful and disloyal
Despite Raleigh’s many services to his monarch, Queen Elizabeth continued to hold the adventurer at arm’s length. In 1592 Elizabeth had granted several rewards to Sir Walter, including his Sherborne estate, Durham House, in London’s Strand, and honorary titles and sinecures, including the title of Captain of the Yeomanry of the Guard (whose members wore the uniforms now associated with the Beefeaters). Nonetheless, the circumstances of his marriage (which Elizabeth doubly resented since it seemed to be a happy one) and the whispers of his enemies in the court kept the Queen from being as open with Sir Walter as she had once been, a circumstance which worsened as Her Majesty experienced the indignities of aging.
