elizabeth i

     

She was "The Untamed Heifer" & "The Virgin Queen"

Trivia about elizabeth i

  • Though historians debate it, she's called "The Virgin Queen"
  • England's "Good Queen Bess"
  • In 1588 she said, "I have the body of a weak & feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of a king"
  • She warned her council who were against her moves on Mary Queen of Scots, "I will make you shorter by a head"
  • Her death in 1603 ended her 45-year reign, & a total of 118 years for the Tudors
  • Wordsworth's poem about her begins, "Hail Virgin Queen! O'er many an envious bar triumphant...."
  • Near the end of "Henry VIII", this princess is described as "a most unspotted lily", who will die a virgin
  • She was the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess
  • Seen here, she had an age of literature named after her
  • She imprisoned Walter Raleigh in the Tower of London after he secretly married one of her maids of honor
  • Christopher Marlowe lived his whole life as her subject
  • Legend says Sir Walter Raleigh spread his cloak over a muddy spot for her to walk across
  • Leaving no heir, she was the last Tudor monarch
  • The one who lived the longest
  • Edmund Spenser & Sir Philip Sidney were part of the flowering of English literature during her reign
  • In 1559 she signed the Act of Supremacy establishing the monarch as head of the Church of England
  • Some thought this Tudor would marry Lord Dudley when his wife was found dead after a suspicious accident in 1560
  • She's the lifelong bachelorette seen here
  • Ambition: To replace this second cousin on her throne
  • Britomart, the female knight of chastity, is one of the characters symbolizing this queen in "The Faerie Queene"
  • Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
  • The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England's official religion
  • "I will make you shorter by a head" was one of this Tudor queen's favorite sayings
  • A 1952 play covered the young life of this queen, like a 1998 Cate Blanchett film
  • She was the queen of England from 1558 to 1603
  • Sir Fulke Greville, a courtier of this Tudor queen, was later stabbed to death by a servant in 1628
  • "Kenilworth" tells the tale of the Earl of Leicester, who some say killed his wife in an attempt to marry this queen
  • In 1593 this English queen changed the length of a mile from 5,000 feet to the current 5,280 feet
  • 1588:"I know I have the body of a weak & feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of a king!"
  • It was during her reign that Her Majesty's Secret Service was 1st organized
  • In 1601 she said, "The glory of my crown (is) that I have reigned with your loves"
  • In a Rossini opera, this queen is incensed to find out the Earl of Leicester is secretly married
  • ...the Spanish Armada was destroyed
  • John Harrington's patent for a water closet was denied by this ruler in 1596 on grounds of propriety
  • When this Tudor queen was a princess, her half-sister Mary imprisoned her in the Tower of London
  • Cate Blanchett in 1998 as this title queen
  • The one who re-established Protestantism as official through the Acts of Supremacy & Uniformity
  • Last monarch of the House of Tudor
  • An age when Shakespeare wrote & England gained power is named for this queen
  • The state of Virginia was so named in her honor
  • She was excommunicated in 1570 & the church sanctioned efforts to dethrone her
  • Virginia was named for this "Virgin Queen", maybe at the suggestion of Sir Walter Raleigh
  • She had extensive hair loss by the age of 31
  • ...Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet"