Dangerous Kingdom of Love

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England, 1613. At the dazzling but brutal court of King James I, politician and philosopher Francis Bacon, the cleverest person in England, the inventor of the modern world, has a fight to survive. A life-threatening alliance of his enemies has formed around the King''s exquisite but noxious lover, Carr. Bacon, always the outsider and the plotter, goes to his friend, Jam...