Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was an English admiral and courtier under Elizabeth I and James I. As Lord Admiral he played a leading role in the naval campaign against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Winston Graham’s The Grove of Eagles places Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and religion, belief and institutional authority.