Queen Elizabeth I1558-1603The Elizabethan

Age

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Who She Was:• Daughter to

King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn

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King Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth I

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Controversial Love Child

• Elizabeth was born an illegitimate bastard because Anne Boleyn wasn’t married to King Henry.

• Anne was killed because:– Protestant– Couldn’t produce a male

heir– Never true Queen of

England

“Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.”  

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

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“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”

Elizabeth kept the theatres alive and running

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Defeat of the Spanish Armada:

One of the greatest victories in English History

“I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England”- (Speech against the Spanish Armada)

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• Virginia- “Virgin Queen”

• Sir Walter Raleigh had permission from The Virgin Queen to establish colonies in North America

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Urban Legends of Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth hated Catholics…Believed in Black Magic… Superstitious…Queen Elizabeth was bald…Queen Elizabeth had many lovers…Never mentioned her mother’s name…

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1558-1603One of

England’s most beloved

Queens “Golden Age”

Elizabethan Era

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