Father and son, William and Robert Cecil, not only dominated politics for much of Elizabeth I and James I reign but dominated architectural fashion. Building a series of spectacular houses, they, and not the monarchy, were the great palace builders of their age.

Burghley and Hatfield remain, but those that are lost were even more extraordinary in both their form and in how they were used.

A lecture by Simon Thurley CBE 4 November

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