Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster & Statesman

by Alan Haynes

For the greater part of her reign, Elizabeth I had three very gifted, and very different men to support her. One of these was the haunted intellectual, Sir Francis Walsingham. During the brief reign of the Queen Mary, Walsingham was a Protestant exile in Italy. Returning home when Elizabeth assumed the throne, from 1570 he became a diplomat to the arch-pragmatist Queen. He was often troubled by her inconsistent policy decisions and for allowing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750947713
• ISBN13: 9780750947718
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"