The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots

R. Kent Tiernan

doi:10.5771/9781793647030

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The Walsingham Gambit provides the reader with a new and unique insight into the hidden history associated with the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots. This hidden history is revealed in great detail by R. Kent Tiernan, who describes how the English deception planners led by Sir Francis Walsingham designed, engineered, and executed a complex seven-year operation to expand Queen Elizabeth I’s power by ending Mary’s life. Tiernan presents a counterintelligence analytical approach utilizing conspiracies and deception between two religious mortal enemies. Historians have explained what happened during this tumultuous period, but this book tells how it happened. Whether interested in history or deception, the reader will be well rewarded with an enhanced understanding of both. This book is a timeless must read for anyone interested in how Mary Stuart was entrapped by Walsingham’s gambit.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4702-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4703-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 268
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Special Acknowledgments No access
Prologue No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Exit the Old Order, Enter the New Chaos No access
2. “Elizabeth Ascending” No access
3. The Worst of Times No access
4. Becoming the Fox No access
5. Elizabeth’s Eyes and Ears No access
1. Looking Back No access
2. Deception Roadmap No access
3. Looking Ahead No access
4. “A Sign from God” No access
5. It’s About Time! No access
6. “Devil in the Details” No access
1. Fired Up and Ready to Go No access
2. Unleashing the “Leash”1 No access
3. “Only Time Will Tell” No access
4. Points of Failure No access
1. Preparing the “Coup de Grace” No access
2. Running the Conspirators to Ground No access
1. “The End Is My Beginning”1 No access
2. “The Queen Is Dead Long Live the Queen!” No access
3. “Softly into the Light” No access
Epilogue No access Pages 177 - 180
Postscript No access Pages 181 - 182
Acknowledgments No access Pages 183 - 186
Appendices No access Pages 187 - 188
Appendix A No access Pages 189 - 194
Appendix B No access Pages 195 - 212
Appendix C No access Pages 213 - 216
Appendix D No access Pages 217 - 234
Appendix E No access Pages 235 - 240
Appendix F No access Pages 241 - 242
Appendix G No access Pages 243 - 246
Appendix H No access Pages 247 - 248
Appendix I No access Pages 249 - 252
Bibliography No access Pages 253 - 256
Index No access Pages 257 - 266
About the Author No access Pages 267 - 268