Tell me something i dont know about the Virgin Queen?

Question

Elizabeth?

Answer 1

she ain't no virgin no more????

Answer 2

well i dont know what you know about her.

she led a war.

virginia was named after her(as was west).

she never married, or had children.

Answer 3

She almost certainly was not one by the time she became queen.

She was called that out of politeness, because she never married, and it was "unthinkable" that a lady of the queen's standing would "dirty herself" outside of marriage.

Mainly of her contemporaries seem to have seriously beleived that she was a witch, with magical powers to control the weather and enslave men's minds.  Letters from members of account all manner of "evidence" of witchcraft, such as the time she stirred her tea with her left hand and that sort of thing.

Answer 4

Once, a would-be assassin tried to kill her by poisoning her saddle.

Answer 5

Reign 17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603

Coronation 15 January 1559

Predecessor Mary I

Successor James I

Royal house House of Tudor

Father Henry VIII

Mother Anne Boleyn

Born 7 September 1533

Greenwich Palace

Died 24 March 1603 (aged 69)

Richmond Palace

Burial Westminster Abbey

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queene or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. The daughter of Henry VIII, she was born a princess, but her mother, Anne Boleyn, was executed three years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Perhaps for that reason, her brother, Edward VI, cut her out of the succession. His will, however, was set aside, and in 1558 Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister, the Catholic Mary, during whose reign she had been imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.

Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel,[1] and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley. One of her first moves was to support the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor. This Elizabethan Religious Settlement held firm throughout her reign and later evolved into today's Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry, but despite several petitions from parliament, she never did. The reasons for this choice are unknown, and they have been much debated. As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants and literature of the day.

In government, Elizabeth was more moderate than her father and siblings.[2] One of her mottoes was video et taceo: "I see but say nothing".[3] This strategy, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Though Elizabeth was cautious in foreign affairs and only half-heartedly supported a number of ineffective, poorly resourced military campaigns in the Netherlands, France and Ireland, the defeat of the Spanish armada in 1588 associated her name forever with what is popularly viewed as one of the greatest victories in British history. Within twenty years of her death, she was being celebrated as the ruler of a golden age, an image that retains its hold on the English people. Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Francis Drake and John Hawkins.

Historians, however, are often more cautious in their judgement. They depict Elizabeth as a short-tempered,[4] sometimes indecisive ruler,[5] who enjoyed more than her share of luck. Towards the end of her reign, a series of economic and military problems weakened her popularity to the point where many of her subjects were relieved at her death. Elizabeth is however acknowledged as a charismatic performer and a dogged survivor, in an age when government was ramshackle and limited and when monarchs in neighbouring countries faced internal problems that jeopardised their thrones. Such was the case with Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom she imprisoned in 1568 and eventually executed in 1587. After the short reigns of Elizabeth's brother and sister, her forty-five years on the throne provided valuable stability for the kingdom and helped forge a sense of national identity

Answer 6

She never ate marmalade for breakfast, it being thought inappropriate for a Queen to eat such an inferior type of food.

Answer 7

It was rumoured that Queen Elizabeth I had Amy Robsart

secretly murdered. Amy Robsart was Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester's wife, he was the long standing favourite of Elizabeth I of England. Amy, Lady Dudley was an English noblewoman, who is mainly known for her death under controversial and somewhat mysterious circumstances.

Due to these suspicious circumstances, many believed Dudley had ordered the murder, which would rather conveniently open the way for him to marry the Queen. However, as he must have understood that the controversy created by his wife's death could potentially ruin any chance he had of marrying Elizabeth, it is unlikely that he would have orchestrated her demise.

Some alleged that the Queen was privy to the plan, and perhaps even ordered it; it is known that she had mentioned to the Spanish ambassador de Quadra that Dudley's wife was near death.

Yet another theory is that her death was ordered by William Cecil, the Queen's secretary. Cecil had fallen out of favour upon the rise of Robert Dudley, and it was possible that if Dudley became King Consort, he could undo all that Cecil had worked for in the past several years, thus Cecil had a strong motive to prevent the Queen and Dudley from marrying. Cecil was certainly perceptive enough to understand that the controversy of Amy's death would disallow the Queen from ever marrying Dudley, which would, in turn, bring Cecil back into favour; indeed, this is what happened.

Cecil had perhaps the strongest motive and the most to gain from her death, which makes him a likely suspect, though there is no strong evidence to prove this theory. In any event, the scandal surrounding the death was enough to discourage the Queen from marrying Dudley.