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Hace 1 día · The third section focuses on privy councillors, specifically three men who acted as her principal secretary, William Cecil, Francis Walsingham, and Robert Cecil. William Cecil, Lord Burghley, was made Elizabeth’s secretary at her first privy council meeting, just three days after her accession.
Hace 3 días · In response to their fear, she chose as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, a Protestant, and former secretary to Lord Protector the Duke of Somerset and then to the Duke of Northumberland. Under Mary, he had been spared, and often visited Elizabeth, ostensibly to review her accounts and expenditure.
- 1485; 538 years ago
- Henry VII (first Tudor king)
Hace 19 horas · Near this period, notwithstanding a recent revival of commerce, and the enlargement of the metropolis, it is stated that there were not above four merchant vessels exceeding 120 tons burthen in the river Thames; and afterwards it is observed, in a letter from a London merchant to Sir William Cecil, that there was "not a city in Europe, having the occupying that London had, that was so ...
Hace 5 días · Seamus the Irish Guards' regimental mascot, made a special trip to see a Second World War veteran who served with the Irish Guards, to celebrate his 100th birthday. The Irish wolfhound, officially named Turlough Mór, visited the home of William Cecil Denny (Jim) to honour his special day.
Hace 3 días · Unknown artist after lost original, 1575; National Portrait Gallery, London. The Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare authorship contends that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.
Hace 2 días · El legendario director William Wyler ordenó construir un monumental set de filmación, inspirado en los antiguos circos romanos, para revivir la grandiosidad de una de las grandes épicas bíblicas en la historia del cine.
Hace 2 días · Lord Robert Cecil was born at Hatfield House, the third son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury and Frances Mary, née Gascoyne. He was a patrilineal descendant of Lord Burghley and the 1st Earl of Salisbury, chief ministers of Elizabeth I. The family owned vast rural estates in Hertfordshire and Dorset.