Queen Elizabeth first met the tall, handsome and charming Devereux in 1584 through his step-father,
her life-long companion Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
In 1596 he went with Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex, on an unsuccessful expedition to the Spanish city of Cádiz, and he was Essex's rear admiral on the Islands voyage
in 1597, an expedition to the Azores.….