Michael, disguised as Vane, goes to the court of King Philip II of Spain (Raymond Massey) to get the letters that will set into motion a plan to assassinate Elizabeth.
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With the support of Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), English sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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Elizabeth's chief advisors are the lord treasurer, Lord Burleigh (Morton Selten), and her longtime admirer, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Leslie Banks).
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