The Golden Age

Reign 17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603

Coronation 16 January 1559

Predecessor Mary I

Successor James I

House House of Tudor

Father Henry VIII

Mother Anne Boleyn

Born 7 September 1533, Greenwich, England

Died 24 March 1603 (aged 69), Richmond, England

Burial Westminster Abbey

Elizabeth I of England

Access

ion

She became a queen at the age of 25

Marriage question

• Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1560s. Elizabeth's friendship with Dudley, her

foremost favourite, lasted for over thirty years.

• the question of marriage appeared at the beginning of her reign.

Her last courtship, ending in 1581 when she

was aged 48, was with Francis, Duke of Anjou

22 years her junior.

Foreign Policy

Countries:Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots)Spain (Phillip II, King of Spain)France (Henry IV)Ireland(Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone) Russia (Ivan Grozny)

Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. Elizabeth's hand rests on

the globe, symbolising her international power.

She very clever and educated.

She spoke 6 languages.

She had merry and cheerful spirit.

Results of elizabeth’s governing:

• positions of absolutism were increased

• the Church of England was restored;

•The Spanish Invincible Armada was defeated;

•The Colonization of Ireland was widely fulfilled.