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Burghley

by Stephen Alford

Biography & MemoirHistorical Fiction

2008

William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), was the closest adviser to England's Queen Elizabeth I and--as this revealing and provocative biography shows--he was the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. --from publisher description.

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