Queen Elisabeth the First?

Question

Ok, I have a report due two weeks from now on Queen Elisabeth the First. I checked out books in the library, searched the internet, everything. I'm trying to raise my grade to a A so I'm trying to give a mindblowing presentation. So I need to know the most importent things about her in order to do that.... can anyone help me do that. But I need atleast 15 Facts on her in that presentation. If you could give me just one I would be happy. But Try to Give me as much as you know, because I don't want to look like a idiot with only one or two facts. Can you also put it in Simple forms... I know this sounds like a lot, but it would mean a lot to me!!! Thank you soooooooooo Much for your time!!!!

Answer 1

Have a look at this site; it has some fascinating facts about her, from her appearance to her favourite scents:
http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/ElizabethI.html

Try this also:
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/interesting-facts-about-queen-elizabeth-i.htm

She never mentioned her mother, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth was vain; she asked questions about Mary, Queen of Scots such as was she taller, or such a good musician. She kept in a casket a letter from Robert Dudley, written on it "his last letter".

She had a sense of humour. There is a story that a nobleman was presented to her; when he bowed before her, he broke wind. Highly embarrassed, he removed himself from court for years. When he eventually deemed it safe to return, he did so and presented himself again. Eyes dancing, Elizabeth said, "My lord, I had forgot the fart!"

Answer 2

The main political problem during her reign was that the Pope had declared her a bastard, a heretic, and not the rightful queen - as if he had any say in the matter, or any power. But it meant that European Catholics plotted against her, and English Catholics were suspected of collaborating with them, hence the persecution - but it was all the Pope's fault in the first place.

The Spanish Armada was not only a military failure by the European Catholic powers (Spain was just the strongest of them), but it made a lot of English Catholics decide to side patriotically with English Protestants, instead of with European Catholics, so England was more united after it.

Answer 3

Because of her long reign and her willingness to be open to different viewpoints, Elizabeth I brought stability to England---particularly in the area of religion, following Queen Mary's reign. Mary was known as "bloody Mary" for the number of people she had put to death for not following the Catholic faith.

Though there was Catholic persecution under Elizabeth, but it subsided over time. She was able to help form the Anglican church which on many levels is a blending of both Catholicism and the reformed Protestant faith tradition.

Because of her influence, England's stability incresed to the point it became a major power after decades of internal strife.

Answer 4

1. Her first love was Thomas Seymour, her stepmother Catherine Parr's husband
2. She had a great respect for astrology, planing her coronation according to the best astrological time
3. She married, thus never sharing her power
4. Her closest female friend was her former nurse, Katherine Ashley , called Kat
5. She was declared a bastard after her mother's death-Henry VIII said his marriage with Anne Boleyn wasn't legal

Answer 5

The leader of a rogue bandit state. She presided over a continuing war with the vatican which was persued by the Spanish and culminated in the sinking of the Spanish Armanda by Drake.

Answer 6

She was Queen at a time when London was the centre of the cultural world (Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Marlow).
She is reputed to have given a spurring speech to her troops to get them going against the Spanish. 'I have the body of a woman, but the heart of a man'. Virginia is named after her and the town of Raleigh after a famous Elizabethan admiral.

Answer 7

She never married
She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn
She was betrothed to King Philip of Spain
She was a persecutor of Catholics
She had her half sister Mary murdered
She suspected everyone of treachery and was responsible for the killing of Sir Walter Raleigh
She was queen when the spanish attempted to invade England (the Spanish Armada) and got the credit for resisting them but their failure was mainly due to bad weather..

Answer 8

Try to pick some info from the official web site of the British Monarchy. I hope it helps.

Answer 9

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