“ Sir Walter Raleigh, a famed English explorer and among Queen Elizabeth I’s favorite subjects” until she had him beheaded.
They don’t bring that up much I notice.
Sorry, Queen Elizabeth was dead for 14 years when Raleigh got the chop. Even James I didn't want to do it, but the Spanish insisted.
Not Elizabeth, but James the1st. Executed on On October 29, 1618.