Turncoats and Opportunists
Alexandra Walsham: Francis Walsingham, 5 July 2012
The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,978 0 571 21827 1 Show More
by John Cooper.
Faber, 400 pp., £9.99, July 2012,
“... and close relationships with senior figures in the Elizabethan regime, such as William Cecil and Robert Dudley. His activities abroad were instrumental in his appointment as principal secretary to the queen in 1573, which marked the beginning of nearly two decades of virtually uninterrupted activity at the heart of government. Cooper’s portrait necessarily ... ”