1533-1603+Elizabeth+I

Elizabeth I > > Elizabeth's reign is known as the [|Elizabethan era], famous above all for the flourishing of [|English drama] ,
 * Henry VIII had changed the course of his country's history in order to marry [|Anne Boleyn] , hoping that she would bear him the strong and healthy son
 * Sometimes called ** The Virgin Queen **, ** Gloriana ** , or ** Good Queen Bess ** her mother, [|Anne Boleyn] , was executed two and a half years after her birth
 * Elizabeth was declared illegitimate
 * [|Edward VI], bequeathed the crown to [|Lady Jane Grey] , cutting his half-sisters out of the succession
 * Lady Jane Grey was executed, and in 1558 Elizabeth succeeded the Catholic [|Mary I], during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
 * set out to rule by good counsel
 * expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir so as to continue the Tudor line. She never did
 * expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir so as to continue the Tudor line. She never did

mottoes was " // video et taceo // " ("I see, and say nothing"