• Elizabeth I

• Watch the video Queen Elizabeth I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=DH6TqDHV0Bs) and complete the sentences:
• Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.
• There were two people in line to the throne before Elizabeth. These were
Edward VI and the Catholic Mary.
• Mary was Catholic while Elizabeth was Protestant. The English were divided
between two types of Christianity.
• Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 after Mary’s death.
• England became a Protestant country.
• It was common for women of her age to marry.
• Elizabeth didn’t want to get married because:
⁃ She would no longer have enjoyed the absolute authority that she had
throughout her reign.
⁃ She had to marry a king or prince of another country, that would have
put England under the influence of a foreign power.
• She had several nicknames. These were:
⁃ The virgin queen.
⁃ Gloriana
⁃ Good Queen Bees
• England was flourishing during her rule.
⁃ Shakespeare’s plays were revolutionising the theatre.
⁃ The economy was growing steadily.
• Historians called her reign as a golden age.
• Elizabeth was a good politician. (What is the proof?)
⁃ She was clever well - educated and had a knack for choosing good
advisors.
• Her greatest triumph was when England’s navy defeated the powerful Spanish
Armada in 1588.
• Some important events during her reign were:
⁃ navigator Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world.
⁃ explorer Sir Walter Raleigh colonised land in what’s now North
Carolina in America.
• Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603.