After #JohnDeCritz the Elder (ca. 1550-1642)
Portrait of #RobertCecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563-1612), who was #BornOnThisDay
1602
#Cecil #Tudor #Stuart
National Portrait Gallery

#OTD
1st June 1563
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was born in Westminster, London.

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#RobertCecil #1stEarlofSalisbury #Courtier #QueenElizabethI #KingJamesI #Tudors #Stuarts #History

#OTD
24th May 1612
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, politician & courtier died at Marlborough, Wiltshire.
He was the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley & Mildred Cooke.

#RobertCecil #1stEarlofSalisbury #SecretaryofState #Tudors #History

2:50pm TODAY on @pbsuk.bsky.social

Elizabeth I's Secret Agents
Ep 3 of 3

A look at the world's first secret service. England has a new monarch and #RobertCecil exposes the most infamous terrorist threat in British history, the gunpowder plot

#History #Tudors #Stuarts