Elizabeth Raleigh Raleigh (Clive Owen), and shows Bess and Raleigh marrying prior to the Spanish Armada (1588), though in fact the couple married in 1591. She appears briefly in Deborah Harkness' novel "Shadow of Night" (2012) as Queen Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting and Walter Raleigh's lover. Elizabeth Throckmorton, played by actress Phoebe Thomas, appears in the BBC 2 three-part drama documentary series "Armada: 12 Days to Save England" (2015) as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, whom the Queen calls 'Bess'. One scene shows the Queen's jealousy of Bess when she realises from seeing Bess wearing a brooch that Bess has a male admirer unknown to
Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet built a new Catholic church at the end of the south drive of Coughton Court, next to the ruins of the church built by an earlier Throckmorton in the 15th century which was confiscated from the family during the Reformation. Throckmorton died at the age of 61. Throckmorton married Elizabeth Acton, daughter of Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet of Aldenham on 16 July 1829. Sir Robert Throckmorton, 8th Baronet Sir Robert George Throckmorton, 8th Baronet (5 December 1800 – 28 June 1862) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1831 to 1835.