Explores Queen Elizabeth I's reign over a new age of exploration, discovery, artistic brilliance, architectural achievement and foreign conquest. The author focuses particularly on the Queen's relationships with key men in her kingdom, including Francis Walsingham and Walter Raleigh.

Peter Brimacombe outlines the achievements of each, revealing above all, the Queen's superb judgement of human nature.

The Tudor kingdom
at the Royal Court
portrait of a queen
the statesmen
the seafarers
the explorers
the suitors
the men of God
the scholars
the Cambridge connection
the creators
men at war.