Sir Walter Ralegh

by Robert Lacey

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This biography is based on the chronology of Ralegh's own writings and brings many new disclosures together - Ralegh's love affair with Alice Goold and care for their illegitimate child, his secret marriage to Bess Throckmorton and his attempt to commit suicide in the Tower.

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Sir Walter Raleigh (as Sir Walter Ralegh)

Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Sir Richard Grenville

Sir Francis Drake

Elizabeth Throckmorton

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London, England, UK

Devon, England, UK

Durham House, the Strand, London, England, UK

Sherborne, Dorset, England, UK

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Before he came into the public note of the world . . . he came up through his own hard work, not pulled up by chance, or by any gentle admittance of fortune -- Sir Robert Naunton

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You can follow today the path that first took Walter Ralegh to the sea.

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"So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth."

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This biography is based on the chronology of Ralegh's own writings and brings many new disclosures together - Ralegh's love affair with Alice Goold and care for their illegitimate child, his secret marriage to Bess Throckmorton and his attempt to commit suicide in the Tower.

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