What do you think of Elizabeth Tudor?

Question

What do you think of Elizabeth Tudor?

Answer 1

She was one of the emblems of the Tudor family so to say. I think she started a glorious age for Britain; a remarkably strong woman she was.

Answer 2

One of the greatest monarchs of all time, maybe the Greatest.  Queen Elizabeth the first launched the British Empire, stopped the spread of Spanish dominance, and is possibly one of the most important figures in all of history.  If she hadn't stood up to the Spanish Empire and the Catholic church, we would be living in a very different world, and liberty would not be enjoyed by so many people today as it currently is.

If England had not started the colonization of N. America, the Spanish would have colonized all of the Americas, and chances are that North America and the area that the U.S. now occupies would be as poor and as repressed as Latin America is today, ruled by elite families, desendents of the original Spanish Conquistadors.

Answer 3

Do you mean Elizabeth Tudor, as in Elizabeth I or do you mean Elizabeth Windsor, as in Elizabeth II?

Answer 4

I think she was a very clever woman, who very nearly was executed by her Sister, who refused to marry and thus kept power for herself.....brought an element of stability to the country following bloody mary's reign, defeated the Spanish and ruled for a very long time.....very interesting reading on the subject, if you can be bothered.

Answer 5

It depends which Elizabeth Tudor you mean.  There's Elizabeth I, and her aunt Elizabeth Tudor (Henry VIII's sister).  Also, strictly speaking Henry VIII's mother was Elizabeth of York, but could also be referred to as Elizabeth Tudor due to her marriage to Henry VII.

Answer 6

Not that bad as a monach (reigned for 45 years) but not that great with finding herself a man...! Why don't you go and watch the film The Golden Age for an insight and make up your own mind :)

Answer 7

She was o.k, 'till she starred in that film 'Cleopatra' with Richard Burton.

It didn't help things much when she married that Michael Jackson!

It put me right off her!