The aim of this project is to understand how Elizabeth I managed to rule England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 in a patriarchal society where women were inferiors to men. Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn, was born in the sixteenth century. A century in which the only purpose of women was to marry and to have children. This project examines the life of Elizabeth I from her birth to her death and also how she is portrayed in two selected films and one television series. The study includes both research in books, mostly biographies, written by different historians as well as primary sources and films. The researchers from the various biographies reveal that Elizabeth, who did not marry and had not an heir, did not consider
