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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I, 1533–1603, queen of England (1558–1603).

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Her golden year: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned fifty years ago, and all of England is celebrating her Jubilee. (Traveler's Notebook). (Town & Country)

Elizabeth I, a once and future queen.(Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty)(Book Review) (CLIO)

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The coronation of Queen Elizabeth: on January 16th, 1559, England's twenty-five-year-old sovereign left Whitehall to be crowned Queen. This article, by A.L. Rowse, was first published in May 1953, exactly fifty years ago, in a special issue of History Today that marked the imminent coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.(Reprint) (History Today)

Christian against Christian in 16th-century England: writers draw surprising parallels with events today.(God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot; A Fifth of November)(Book Review) (National Catholic Reporter)

So much was made of Michelle Obama "touching the Queen"--as if Elizabeth II is some sort of delicate, intergalactic alien, with power--that I was reminded of England's other Queen Elizabeth--I do mean the movie star, Elizabeth. (Daily Variety)

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Advice to Elizabeth: 450 years ago this month, the young Elizabeth became queen of England. Norman Jones looks at evidence from the state papers, newly available online from Cengage, to show how those close to her viewed the challenges faced in the early days by Elizabethan England.(Cover story) (History Today)

The Royal Consigliere; Though much of Elizabeth's role is symbolic, she also subtly wields a personal, but very real, power.(Queen of England) (Newsweek)

Images of a dead Queen. (historical record of mourning ceremony for Queen Elizabeth I of England)(Cover Story) (History Today)

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