Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage

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Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was once principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but actually this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was once England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely dependable civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly at the back of the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces at the back of her. Despite the fact that he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeth’s worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the accept as true with of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester before launching his own secret campaign against the queen’s enemies. Covert operations were Walsingham’s genius; he pioneered ways for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and interpreting codes with the up to date code-breaking science that stay staples of international espionage.

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