Queen Elizabeth the First

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Few monarchs throughout history have made so much from so little as did Queen Elizabeth I. At 25 she took the throne of what was the most tired, broke, and conflicted country in all of Europe, and turned it around so well that by the time she died, it was in fact the most powerful country in Europe. England had, under her reign, entered the Golden Age, thanks to her alone.

Few would disagree with the fact that she did an amazing thing. Further, she was a woman who did this amazing thing, which was yet another thing that was simply unfathomable in her day.

Queen Elizabeth I was born on September 7, 1533, in Greenwich, England. She was the last Tudor monarch, and ruled very differently from her 2 siblings before her.  When Anne Boleyn gave birth to Elizabeth Tudor (later became Queen Elizabeth I), King Henry VIII did not want a daughter. When Anne Boleyn failed to produce a son for him, he had her executed and sent Elizabeth Tudor away.

After a very interesting series of life events, Queen Elizabeth I was crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey in 1559. Queen Elizabeth the first’s coronation ended the “reign of terror” by her half-sister, Queen Mary Tudor, also known as “Queen Bloody Mary.”

Mary Tudor was Queen Elizabeth’s half-Spanish sister. England could not be happier to get rid of her, as she made it a habit to burn at the stake many of the countries’ protestants. Queen Mary also represented a very real threat for Spain to take over all of England from the inside. Luckily she died before she could do too much damage and the throne fell to Queen Elizabeth, and there was much rejoicing. (In England, at least.)

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