Elizabeth I
1558-1603
(Tudor)
Daughter of Henry VIII from Anne Boleyn. Defeated Spanish Armada in 1588. Promoted the arts, e.g. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson and explorers, e.g. Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh. Had Mary Queen of Scots, great-granddaughter of Henry VII via James V of Scotland, imprisoned and later executed.

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