Good Queen Bess ELIZABETH I

She fought off foreign invasions and domestic rebellions, but does the virgin queen live up to her reputation as Britain’s golden monarch?

In 1588, against the advice of her aides, Elizabeth I rode out on her grey gelding to address her troops gathered at Tilbury in Essex awaiting the invasion of the Spanish Armada. Looking out at the assembled faces, she made a speech that would forever define her rule: ‘I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king – and of a king of England, too.’ This image of Elizabeth has been the key to our popular perception for centuries, but there’s much more to her than that. When she came to the throne in November 1558, the whole of Europe was nervous. How would the Protestant queen follow the reign of her Catholic half-sister, Mary? But this unstable…

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Woman's Weekly Living Series (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023

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