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    Walter Ralegh

    A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, c1588. (Photo by ACTIVE MUSEUM / Alamy Stock Photo)
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    Walter Ralegh: “The rankest traitor in all England?”

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    Walter Ralegh: enemy of the state

    Sir Walter Ralegh (c1554–1618, shown here in a painting attributed to William Segar) is often remembered as a favourite of Elizabeth I and an adventurer, yet he was also one of the most influential political philosophers of his era. (Photo by Alamy)
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    Painting ‘reveals Walter Ralegh’s secret desire for Elizabeth I’

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    Where history happened: Tudor smuggling

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    The plague, Sir Walter Ralegh and Jerusalem

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