{"id":1863,"date":"2012-11-26T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2013-04-15T22:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T21:41:45","slug":"the-watchers-by-stephen-alford-included-in-sunday-times-book-choice-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"The Watchers by Stephen Alford included in Sunday Times Book Choices of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p>The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Alford\u2019s splendid exploration of the secret world of Elizabethan England begins with an arresting what-if-scenario: what if the queen had been assassinated in 1586?&#8230;.he sets the scene for a riveting study of the spies, informers and code-breakers who kept the Virgin Queen safe from Catholic conspiracies during an erathat was much more paranoid that we remember.&#8217; (Dominic Sandbrook, p.44, 25 November 2012)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford \u2018Alford\u2019s splendid exploration of the secret world of Elizabethan England begins with an arresting what-if-scenario: what if the queen had been assassinated in 1586?&#8230;.he sets the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/?p=1863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[282],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2012-2","tag-stephen-alford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladyjanegrey.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}