Mary, Queen of Scots
In Our Time
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Cecil's Master Plan
John O'Donne: Cecil was a skilled political operator, the most sort of messianic. He's an emesis. And even Elizabeth knew that, I mean, Elizabeth wouldn't give a decision at the meeting which or the permission as it's called - he examined the casket letters because she knew they were dodgy. It destroys Throttmoreton's career. But at the end of his instructions, as a private sort of doodle at the end and in the draft of them, this is my Eureka moment in the National Archives. This is pure knocks out of the first class of the Trumpet. Aphalia Inter-Empter Perjal
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