Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, France (in name only), and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, and was immortalised by Edmund Spenser as the Faerie Queene. Elizabeth I was the fifth and final monarch of the House of Tudor (the other Tudor monarchs having been her grandfather Henry VII, her father Henry VIII, her half-brother Edward VI, and her half-sister Mary I, also known as Mary Tudor or "Bloody Mary"). She reigned for almost 45 years, during a period marked by increases in English power and influence worldwide, as well as great religious turmoil within England.
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