Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 (1533-1603)
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England's last Tudor monarch reigned 44 years without marrying or naming an heir, turned her childlessness into statecraft, and lent her name to an era of Shakespeare, Drake, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
Born to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was declared illegitimate at two when her mother was executed. Henry restored her to succession at 10; after her half-brother Edward VI's death in 1553, her Catholic half-sister Mary imprisoned her for nearly a year on suspicion of backing Protestant rebels. When Mary died in 1558, Elizabeth took the throne and established the Church of England with herself as supreme governor. She ruled by trusted counsel—chiefly William Cecil—and adopted the motto 'I see and keep silent,' navigating between France and Spain while her spymaster Francis Walsingham crushe…
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For rather will I never meddle with marriage than have such a bad covenant added to my part.
Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is there any cause I should alienate myself from being careful over this country? Is not my kingdom here?
Though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
I will make you shorter by the head.
And whereas you would frighten us, by telling how emperors, kings, and princes have owned the bishop of Rome's authority; it was contrary in the beginning.
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