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30 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. He was always Elizabeth’s favourite and their affectionate relationship caused much scandal.

31. Thomas Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk, executed for plotting against Elizabeth.

32. Elizabeth in Parliament, a body which she alternately appeased and bullied.

33. Mary Queen of Scots, the perpetual conspirator.

34. The execution of the Scottish queen, who believed that she died a martyr.

35. The pope’s bull against Elizabeth in 1570, in which he excommunicated her as a heretic.

36. The arrival of Elizabeth at Nonesuch Palace, ‘none such like it’ in the kingdom.

37. The unhappy route of the Armada, trapped by the sea no less than by English ships.

38 Sir Francis Drake, captain victorious and navigator extraordinaire.

39.
Ark Royal
, the English fleet’s flagship against the Armada.

40. William Cecil, Elizabeth’s principal councillor, known to her as ‘Sir Spirit’.

41. Francis Walsingham, spymaster general and confidential councillor.

42. Robert Cecil, the great survivor, known to the queen as ‘my pigmy’.

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