Sir robert cecil biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders...
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Robert Cecil, the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mildred Cooke, was born on 1st June, 1563 at Cecil House, Strand, London.
Sir robert cecil biography for kids
At the time his father was Secretary of State and the main advisor to Queen Elizabeth. (1)
Mathew Lyons has pointed out that Cecil's closeness to Queen Elizabeth resulted in hostility of the nobility. "The group's Catholicism distracts from the more general reactionary nostalgia of its worldview...
It was fed by resentment of the rising gentry families, of which Cecil was the most egregious and of course most powerful example; by a sense of sour entitlement, the humiliation of proud men excluded from positions of influence that their ancestors had held." (2)
When he was a child Richard Cecil was dropped by his nursemaid and left with permanent curvature of the spine.
(3) He was educated at home, first by his mother, one of the most learned women of her generation, then by tutors. He was taught Greek, Lat