文档介绍：Queen Elizabeth I
"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman,but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England"
Born: 7 September 1533 Greenwich Palace
Became Queen: 17 November 1558
Coronation: 15 January 1559Westminster Abbey
Died: 24 March 1603Richmond Palace
Buried: 28 April 1603Westminster Abbey
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was a very sensible and precocious(早熟的) girl.
She had a great talent of studying.
she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed three years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.
Her brother, Edward VI, cut her out of the succession. His will, however, was set aside, and in 1558 Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, the Catholic Mary, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
Marriage question
As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants and literature of the day.
She did not marry because she wanted to protect England from foreign rule and civil war.
Elizabeth insisted she was married to her kingdom and subjects under divine protection
"All my husbands,my good people."
William Shakespeare
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