Elizabeth I

Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was executed when Elizabeth was two. She was well educated, reading Latin and Greek and speaking several modern languages. During the reign of her Catholic half-sister Mary I she was suspected of plotting and was briefly held in the Tower of London. She became queen in 1558 at twenty-five and restored the Protestant Church of England in a settlement meant to hold most of the country together. She never married, and was called the Virgin Queen. Her reign faced plots on her life, war with Spain and rebellion in Ireland. In 1587, after long hesitation, she allowed the execution of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1588 English ships and storms scattered the Spanish Armada, and she gave a famous speech to her troops at Tilbury. Her age saw the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe and the voyages of Drake and Raleigh. She died in 1603, the last of the Tudor monarchs.

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Faith: A Protestant who established the Church of England as Supreme Governor, though she kept some Catholic symbols. Source: Wikipedia