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2 “Equall Portions”: Sidney, Prince Henry, and the Enforcement of “Protestant” Solidarity Had Charles I’s elder brother survived to his 30s, instead of dying at the age of just 18, he would have succeeded James I as Henry IX. Roy Strong stresses this short-lived prince’s significance by reconstructing a vital ideological line of descent into which he should firmly be placed. That line runs as follows: Elizabeth I’s first favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; secondly his nephew, Sir Philip Sidney; and finally his stepson and the Queen’s last favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
7 These claims obviously differ in some respects from Strong’s. Hill identifies a “succession” with no clear parent or founder, and one in which Sidney descends from a near coeval (Spenser) rather than an elder (Leicester). ” But Hill’s omission of Henry from his version of Strong’s genealogy represents a local feature of the particular passage quoted rather than any failure to appreciate Henry’s possible significance. On the contrary, Hill’s classification of Henry’s funeral as one of the intellectual origins of an English Revolution has helped establish that paradigm as a major “EQUALL PORTIONS” 25 alternative to internecine conflict as a way of comprehending the history of mid-seventeenth-century Britain.
Even if more by chance than design, however, Williamson suggests just how stifling the ultramasculine ethos of Sidney’s upbringing might have been, however much valued in retrospect by those keen to stress his ideological affiliation with Henry. In terms as suggestive as Williamson’s, but more circumspect, Malcolm William Wallace acknowledged how Languet’s letters to Sidney “often . . read like those of a jealous lover to his mistress”; John Buxton likewise heard in some of them “Polonius . .