Elizabeth I and Her Circle

Part 1: Kin

Parents and Siblings

The Suffolk Cousins

Mary Queen of Scots

James VI of Scotland

Part 2: Courtiers

'Eyes': Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

'Lids': Sir Christopher Hatton

Her 'most humble vassall': Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex

tThe Women who Served

Part 3: Councillors

'Sir Spirit': Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley

The 'Moor': Sir Francis Walsingham

The 'Pygmy': Sir Robert Cecil.