Sir Christopher Hatton

as played by Bobby Hull

I am the second son of William Hatton of Holdenby and his second wife Alice Saunders. After spending several years in halfhearted study of the law, I enrolled as one of the queen's bodyguards. I impressed the queen with my talent for dancing and quickly won her affection (eventually coming to be known as the dancing Chancellor). I became captain of her bodyguards and later vice chamberlain of her household, a privy councilor, a Knight of the Garter and eventually Lord Chancellor of England. Regularly elected to Parliament, I became a leading spokesman for Queen Elizabeth in the House of Commons, until being made Lord Chancellor of England. In foreign affairs I side with the more vigorous anti-Spanish forces against the cautious policies of her principal secretary, William Cecil, Lord Burghley.

I was able to convinced her majesty to “suggest” the Bishop of Ely to hand over his home... Ely Palace in Holborn to me to be used as my residence.

At Holdenby, Northamptonshire, I have spent money freely on building an ornate country house and dedicated it as a shrine to her most Royal Majesty... who, by the way.. lent me thousands of pounds for its construction, but has yet visited it. However she did give me something that would benefit me quite well, the monopoly on wheat.

I have yet to marry, still holding onto hopes that her Majesty would think of me as a possible suitor. However, I am a man, not a monk, so recently I was informed that I am now the father of a illegitimate daughter, named Elizabeth.

I am well liked by most of the courtier at court, but I know not if that is because they truly like me or that I have the Queens ear and could help them with a boon or two.

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