from the Tower and placed in close custody for a year at Woodstock. The difficulty of her situation eased somewhat, though she was never far from suspicious scrutiny. Throughout the unhappy years of Mary’s childless reign, with its burning of Protestants and its military disasters, Elizabeth ...
During Elizabeth I's reign lots of English explorers searched for new lands and treasures. The explorer Sir Francis Drake was knighted by Elizabeth for services to his country. The time when Elizabeth I was Queen is known as England’s Golden Age. In 1588 the King of Spain, Philip I, se...
Noun1. Elizabeth I- Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by...
A summary of some of the most important achievements of Elizabeth I of England. Before the start of her reign, England had been weakened by war and religious strife. By the end of it, the country was rich and secure and enjoying its greatest literary per
There were some very obvious additional stress factors to take into consideration – at six she’d gained her fifth step-mother, a cousin, Katherine Howard. Less than two years later Katherine was sent to the block. In Katherine Parr Elizabeth found some sort of family life and stability, al...
Elizabeth: Directed by Shekhar Kapur. With Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox, Terence Rigby. The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Queen Elizabeth I (伊丽莎白一世,1533---1603),wasHenry’sdaughter byhis second wifeAnn Boleyn.Elizabethwasaged 25when she came to the thronein1558. and she reigned England for 45 years after that. Since she remained single all through her life,Queen Elizabeth Iwas also called“Virgin Queen”...
During the last years of her reign, Elizabeth came to rely on the granting of monopolies as a cost-free system of patronage, rather than asking Parliament for more subsidies in a time of war.[s] The practice soon led to price-fixing, the enrichment of courtiers at the public's expense,...
In 1603, the death of one of England's greatest monarchs brought to an end the Tudor age and a reign that had lain the foundations for modern Britain. Elizabeth I's 45 years as the Queen of England were certainly turbulent. She re-imposed Protestantism after the rule of her Catholic ...
And so, over the next several years, the dominant issue of her reign would be one which she personally detested – who would the queen marry, and when? For Elizabeth, treading carefully and conscious of the novelty of her position, the issue was a personal and political threat – and ...