Ironically, it may have originated from British Prime Minister Robert Cecil’s act of nepotism when he appointed his nephew as ...

Hatfield House was completed by Robert Cecil, the monarch’s loyal secretary, in 1611 as the King James Bible came off the presses. The adherents of another, strict Rastafarian mansion ...

Lord Robert Cecil, back in London after his recent trip to the United States, says that America doubts whether Europe is really sincere in her desire for peace. ” The American people,” he said ...

Billed as a Tudor Le Carré, this account of the life and dramatic career of spymaster Robert Cecil is set in the “thrillingly ruthless” world of high politics during the reigns of Elizabeth I ...

He was the eldest son of James Maitland Balfour, a wealthy Scottish businessman, and the nephew to Robert Cecil, the third marquess of Salisbury. Lord Arthur James Balfour was raised in a highly ...

This was the Age of Exploration and MP, explorer and adventurer Sir Edward Michelborne was keen to play his part. Turned down ...

In 1605, a group of disaffected Catholics plotted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the House of Lords. They hoped to restore Protestant England to Catholicism and end the persecution of ...

He worked for Elizabeth well into old age, at which point his son, Robert Cecil, took over some of his duties. Image caption, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, was a childhood friend of Elizabeth.

Stella was born November 18, 1932, in Covington, Kentucky, the daughter of Robert Cecil and Elizabeth Ruth O’Connor Henry. On June 16, 1950, she married Richard D. Hoskins. They moved to ...

Klaus Guth (Sir Robert Cecil)Anton Diffring (Kardinal Millini) Angelika Weber The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between ...