My teacher says it's the same thing.?

Question

I made up a little quiz for the class to study from for the test. A question i put on there was :What was Queen Elizabeth I queen of? The Choices were ireland, welsh, england, scotland or Britiain. But it was more like a trick question. The two choices i thought it would be were scotland and england. But she said all the choices were right. Were all the choices right?

Answer 1

She could not have been Queen of Scotland. Mary, Queen of Scots, was queen of Scotland at the time Elizabeth took over the crown.

Answer 2

She was Queen of England. period.

She ruled over Wales, but the title "Prince of Wales" was reserved for the heir to the English crown since Edward II. She did NOT rule over Scotland, and actually, she had very bad relationships with her cousin Mary, Queen of the Scots, and it would be James VI of Scotland who would inherit the English crown when Elizabeth died without heir.

As for Ireland, While kings of  England had started styling themeslves "king of Ireland" since Henry VIII, they did not have much real power there before the reign of James I.

As a matter of fact, There could not be a crown of "Britain" before the Scottish and English crown were united on the same head, as Great Britain camprises the main landmass occupied by England, Wales and Scotland, as well as appending territories (like Cornwall and Devon) and the minor isles therearound, with the exceptions of Ireland and Man.

Another fun bit of Trivia is that Elizabeth I was also styled "Queen of France", as the Tudors hadn't officially renounced the pretentions to that title held by english kings since Edward III.

Answer 3

To understand this in a more simplistic way we can examine the heraldic arms for Elizebeth which include all relevent information. The Royal Arms have changed and evolved over the nine centuries since they were first used by Richard I (The Lionheart). Richard I's Coat of Arms was simply the three lions, referred to as 'Gules three lions passant guardant or'.  This remained the Royal Arms of England until King Edward III quartered the arms with the fleur-de-lis, the arms of the french kings, to symbolize his claim to the French throne. This remained the Royal Arms until the reign of James I, and thus are shown above in the Royal Arms of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was officially titled Queen of France, but the title was a hollow one. Calais, England's last French territory, was lost in the reign of Mary I. James I quartered the arms further, adding the Scottish arms and the harp of Ireland. The Royal Arms was altered again by subsequent monarchs, but the simplified version adopted by Queen Victoria, remains the official Royal Arms today.

The Supporters to the arms (lions, unicorns, dragons etc) have also changed considerably over the centuries. Queen Elizabeth chose as her supporters the English Royal Lion (on the left) and the Welsh Dragon (on the right), symbolizing she was Queen of England and Wales.

So there you have it straight from the horses mouth.

England, France and Wales.

Answer 4

No, all the choices were not right.  elizabeth I was not Queen of Scotland, which remained independent from england until Elizabeth's death in 1603, when her cousin James VI of Scotland also became King of England.

Elizabeth I was Queen of England, Wales and Ireland, so those would all be correct choices.

Answer 5

She certainly wasn't Queen of Scotland, they had their own monarchy at that time. Britain wasn't united then either. It was certainly England and Ireland. The country is Wales, welsh is the adjective. Your teacher is wrong, she is stupid.

Answer 6

Scotland has only had 1 Queen Elizabeth, and that is the present Queen

Answer 7

if ur teachers hot i have probably banged her

Answer 8

Your teacher is wrong. Queen Elizabeth was Queen of England and Wales and Ireland NOT Scotland. Scotland had noy yet united with England and Wales and Ireland then, Perhaps you should just remind her of the error.

Answer 9

shes queen of england, northern ireland, scotland, wales, australia, canada and many other islands.

And it's not Welsh.....it's Wales.

Answer 10

Britain and scotland were unified after Elizabeth I when James VI of scotland Became James I of England uniting the two.

Answer 11

Absolutely not. Elizabeth I was only Queen of England and Ireland. She was also known as "Queen of France", however, in name only. The English claims to the French throne have a long and rather complex history between the 1340s and the 1800s. From 1340 to 1801, with only brief intervals in 1360-1369 and 1420-1422, the kings and queens of England, and after the Acts of Union in 1707 the kings and queens of Great Britain, also bore the title of King (or Queen) of France.

The tradition of investing the heir of the monarch of Britain with the title of "Prince of Wales" began in 1301, when King Edward I of England, having completed the conquest of Wales, gave the title to his heir, Prince Edward (later King Edward II of England). Therefore, Elizabeth I was never "Queen of Wales" since Wales became apart of England rather than remaining a separate ‘state" with a separate Parliament (different sets of rules, laws etc), unlike Ireland.

Scotland was still a separate country at the time of Elizabeth I's reign, and remained a separate state until the Acts of Union in 1707. Scotland was ruled by Mary, Queen of Scot, a Catholic fanatic who was also temporarily Queen of France by marriage. Mary of Scot was also Elizabeth I's first cousin once removed, therefore, she was the next heiress in line to the English throne. Although James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne as "King James I of England", these two countries were governed by separate Parliaments.

The first and last Queen to be titled as "Queen of Great Britain" was Queen Anne from the House of Stuart. It was under her reign that the Acts of Union of 1707 finally united and merged England and Scotland as one political unit, generally known as the Kingdom of Great Britain.