Queen Elizabeth I Research Paper
ALEJANDRO POSE
4TH YEAR
Choose one English king / queen and discuss their importance in the history of England. (About 2000 words) In about a thousand years of monarchy, England had many remarkable kings and queens and yet most probably none of them deserved the attention from historians and novelists like Queen Elizabeth I, also known as ‘Gloriana’, ‘Good Queen Bess’ and ‘The Virgin Queen’. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn and is one of the most famous queens in England, who stayed on the throne for 44 years, starting in 1558 up to her death in 1603. Her childhood was far from happy or peaceful, for she lived in an atmosphere of religious intolerance, with her father’s desperate attempts at producing …show more content…
As treasurer in 1577 and controller in 1589 of the Royal Navy, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1558).4 Due to this England became one of the leading …show more content…
These were the days when the inquisition was rampant in Europe and as a woman who wore men’s clothes in a battle, Queen Elizabeth I stands as a monarch who could not afford to be “too full of the milk of human kindness”5. She had a job to do: to lead her country to power and stability. And she did this even at the price of beheading her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, depriving her not only of her life and throne but also of her aristocratic immunities. She proved to be not only a ruthless person but a very strong one. She ruled alone for nearly half a century, providing England of one of its most glorious periods in world history. She managed to defeat even her greatest enemies and her sense of duty was admirable, though it came at great personal
4TH YEAR
Choose one English king / queen and discuss their importance in the history of England. (About 2000 words) In about a thousand years of monarchy, England had many remarkable kings and queens and yet most probably none of them deserved the attention from historians and novelists like Queen Elizabeth I, also known as ‘Gloriana’, ‘Good Queen Bess’ and ‘The Virgin Queen’. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleyn and is one of the most famous queens in England, who stayed on the throne for 44 years, starting in 1558 up to her death in 1603. Her childhood was far from happy or peaceful, for she lived in an atmosphere of religious intolerance, with her father’s desperate attempts at producing …show more content…
As treasurer in 1577 and controller in 1589 of the Royal Navy, he rebuilt older ships and helped design the faster ships that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1558).4 Due to this England became one of the leading …show more content…
These were the days when the inquisition was rampant in Europe and as a woman who wore men’s clothes in a battle, Queen Elizabeth I stands as a monarch who could not afford to be “too full of the milk of human kindness”5. She had a job to do: to lead her country to power and stability. And she did this even at the price of beheading her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, depriving her not only of her life and throne but also of her aristocratic immunities. She proved to be not only a ruthless person but a very strong one. She ruled alone for nearly half a century, providing England of one of its most glorious periods in world history. She managed to defeat even her greatest enemies and her sense of duty was admirable, though it came at great personal