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Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor .
The combination of a life-sized portrait of the queen with a horizontal format is "quite unprecedented in her portraiture", [51] although allegorical portraits in a horizontal format, such as Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses and the Family of Henry VIII: An Allegory of the Tudor Succession pre-date the Armada Portrait.
Mary I of England had died without managing to have her preferred successor and first cousin, Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, nominated by parliament.Margaret Douglas was a daughter of Margaret Tudor, and lived to 1578, but became a marginal figure in discussions of the succession to Elizabeth I, who at no point clarified the dynastic issues of the Tudor line. [4]
The Spanish ambassador, Antonio de Guarás, noted that in 1577 he gave Mary a jewel that was recognised to refer to Mary, Queen of Scots. It depicted Elizabeth enthroned with a queen in chains, and France and Spain submerged by Neptune. [53] Elizabeth was given jewels during country house entertainments staged during her progresses.
The last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled from 1558 until 1603 One of Queen Elizabeth I ’s most well-known features was her stark white makeup — but the face painting was applied ...
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history.
The King's Daughter: A Novel of the First Tudor Queen (2008), by Sandra Worth, chronicles the origins of Tudor rule. Reign (TV series) (2013–2017), a four-season television series that is loosely based on the life of Mary, Queen of Scots and in later seasons, Elizabeth I of England.
The coronation of Elizabeth I as Queen of England and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 15 January 1559.Elizabeth I had ascended the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her half-sister, Mary I, on 17 November 1558.