She Regained Her Strength
She eventually recovered her health, but smallpox nearly killed her and left her with life-altering psychological scars. Unfortunately, Lady Sidney had an even worse experience. She was said to have contracted the disease as a result of her protracted vigil by the queen’s bedside, and as a result, she was said to have been disfigured.
She Regained Her Strength
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Lady Sidney
Several accounts claim that Lady Sidney was so seriously damaged by smallpox that her own husband was mortified by her physical appearance. As Henry Sidney recounted in his memoirs of his late wife, “I left her a full fair lady in mine eye, or at least the fairest of them all,” and when he returned, “I found her as fowl a lady as the smallpox could turn her.”
Lady Sidney
