title: Soaring Falcons, Falling Doves
author: Brockway, Mary
description: Forty years had not dimmed the sound of the thudding axe when Sir Walter Raleigh's handsome head was severed, his life's blood spurting upon the straw. Recalling that day brought a surge of bile to Lady Glorian's throat, for more heads were to fall; one that of an anointed King of England.