Queen Elizabeth I
Who is Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Sometimes referred to as the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old. Anne's marriage to Henry was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother Edward VI ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned f...
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Queen Elizabeth I Poems
- Written In Her French Psalter
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind....
- Written With A Diamond On Her Window At Woodstock
Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.
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- The Doubt Of Future Foes
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,
And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy;
For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects' faith doth ebb,
Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web. ...
- On Monsieur's Departure
I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly to prate. ...
- When I Was Fair And Young
When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.
Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.
But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:
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- Paula80023468: i miss our queen elizabeth- all this bad behaviour, nastiness lies etc., so making the coronation focusing on guess who? this is not the legacy qe2 would want to see.. 70yrs of not putting a foot wrong-now its just a soap opera!! no hype no fun - just misery. sad really.
- Angelialevy: used to think it was odd that queen elizabeth wouldn't step aside so that prince charles could be king. since her death and given charles' idiotic actions & pettiness, i can see why she didn't. charles is a 73 year-old brat, mostly due to his parents.
- Andrewsp2009: linlithgow palace (scotland) where mary queen of scots was born in 1542. lochleven castle where she was held captive (1567/68) & fotheringhay castle (england) where she was beheaded on the orders of elizabeth i of england in 1587. (my old watercolour reconstructions)
- Chefjohnny84: and just a side note because i’m a random factoid trivia nerd (and speak german). the british monarchy is immensely popular in de. in fact, they made up a word for queen elizabeth ii. in german, the queen is die köningen/king dear könig. for qeii, they used die queen = the queen.
- Bernardnolan19: i was once more a guest of dajjal’s surgeons at queen elizabeth hospital. the doctors wanted to keep me in another day, but i negotiated a sharp exit.
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