didn't Bacon set up Liz's secret service? Yep, and wrote Shakespeare's plays and told Francis Drake how to beat up the Spaniards and Walter Raleigh that a trip to Virginia might be a commercial success but a personal downfall. Plus he probably recommended to Liz that posing as a virgin might be politically expedient, chose her dresses, ran Billingsgate Fish Market ...
Bacon gets credit, but these days seldom where it was due. In fact, Francis Walsingham should get the "credit" for Liz's secret service. If a Bacon was involved in this at all, it would have been Sir Francis' father, Nicolas, who was Keeper of the Queen's Seal, but I've never read anything to suggest that this was the case. Francis Bacon actually only achieved political prominence under James 1 ... then got caught with his fingers in the till, spent a few days in the Tower of London and was then kind of forgiven, but never held office again.
I am not, however, trying to detract from his very real actual achievements. He was definitely a bright lad.
