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Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
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Frances Seymour's Address - 2013 Commitment to Development Award
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Frances Seymour, World Resources Institute
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Edward Seymour warns his wife's lover to stay away from her
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Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, was an English noblewoman who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II. Her father was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Elizabeth I's favourite who was executed for treason in 1601. She was the second wife of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and the mother of his seven children.
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