The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
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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.
Part One (1560–1579)
1. Exit the Old Order - Enter the New Chaos
2. “Elizabeth Ascending”
3. The Worst of Times
4. Becoming the Fox
5. Elizabeth’s Eyes and Ears
Part Two (1580–1582)
6. Looking Back
7. Deception Roadmap
8. Looking Ahead
9. “A Sign from God”
10. It’s About Time!
11. “Devil In the Details”
Part Three (1583–1585)
12. Fired Up and Ready to Go
13. Unleashing the ‘Leash’
14. “Only Time Will Tell”
15. Points of Failure
Part Four (1585–1586)
16. Preparing the “Coup de Grace”
17. Running the Conspirators to Ground
Part Five (1587–1590)
18. “The End is My Beginning”
19. “The Queen is Dead Long Live the Queen!”
20. “Softly Into the Light”
Epilogue
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Appendices
Appendix A Deception Planner/Intelligence Analyst Insights
Appendix B Lingering Questions and Their Implications
Appendix C Walsingham’s Intelligence Organization
Appendix D Countering the Catholic Threat
Appendix E Facts, Fiction, and Inferences
Appendix F Chronology of Catholic and Protestant Events
Appendix G Chronology of Significant Deception Plan Execution Events
Appendix H Walsingham’s Deception Capabilities Flow Chart
Appendix I Walsingham’s Role in Defeating the Babington Plot
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.
The difference between American political clowns of the MTG and Santos ilk and 16th-century conspirators against Mary, Queen of Scots, is that our clowns produce no results. Not so, the Elizabethans. According to former intelligence expert and Air Force Academy history professor R. Kent Tiernan, the psychological, devious, secretive, patient machinations of Queen Elizabeth’s Secretary of State, Sir Francis Walsingham, and her Lord High Treasurer, William Cecil, created a brilliant intelligence and counterintelligence network that made Mary’s demise inevitable. Scrupulously researched, but presented with aids to the lay reader, it’s fascinating, actually. Machiavellian, definitely. Shakespearean, nearly.
- Title: The Walsingham Gambit: Deception, Entrapment, and Execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
- Authors: R. Kent Tiernan, John J. Dziak
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781793647030, 9781793647023, 179364702X, 1793647038
- Resource ID: LLS:9781793647030
- Resource Type: Monograph
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R. Kent Tiernan served as an intelligence officer for the United States Air Force. He was also an assistant professor of history at the United States Air Force Academy. Before his retirement in 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Senior National Intelligence Service officer and acted as a Vice Chairman/Staff Director for the Foreign Denial and Deception Committee.