a personal history of Elizabeth I
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hibbert, Christopher
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 ELI 2010 - A
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- At the age of two Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII: Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished from the royal court. At 21, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London by her sister, Mary. And at 25 she was crowned Queen of England and Ireland, ruling as the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty until her death in 1603. The reign of Elizabeth was characterized by the virgin queen cult that grew up around her fierce independence, by her epic defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, by England's seafaring prowess personified in the figures of Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh and by the great flowering of artistic and literary creativity that was catalyzed in the plays of Shakespeare and Marlowe.