Contents: The Medieval Era; The Elizabethan Age; The Queen's Secret; Bacon's Birth and Early Childhood; Early Youth and the University; The Royal Revelation; Court of France; The Laying of Great Bases for Eternity; The Making of an Immortal; Francis Bacon the Publicist; The Virgin Queen and her Concealed Sons; The Two Brothers; The Last of the Tudors; Notable Dates in Bacon's Life; Bibliography, Index. Illustrated.