Ep. 166 Sir Walter Raleigh: How the Elizabethan Golden Boy Flew Too Close to the Sun

I have wanted to talk about Sir Walter Raleigh for so very long. He had a lot of power and influence during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and impacted the world we know today more than people realize. He's even the one who came up with the name Virginia! And yet, most don't know the first thing about Raleigh. Who was he really? And how did he go from the queen’s favorite golden boy to beheaded at Westminster in the span of just a few decades? Let's fix that. 

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• Roanoke Parts 1 and 2
• The Found Colony of Roanoke?

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• Historic Royal Palaces “Sir Walter Raleigh”
• History.com “Walter Raleigh”
• North Carolina Museum of History “The Demise of Sir Walter Raleigh”
• BBC “Walter Raleigh”
• Sir Walter Raleigh’s letter to his wife (Matthew Lyons)

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