First Queen Elizabeth Research Paper

The first Queen Elizabeth was one of the greatest rulers England ever had. The time when she reigned is called the Elizabethan Age, and it was a long period, forty-five years, when England became very rich and powerful. When Elizabeth II came to the throne the British people rejoiced and hoped there would be another Elizabethan Age like the first one.
The first Elizabeth was born in the year 1533. Her father was Henry VIII, who married six different times. Elizabeth’s mother was his second wife. Her name was Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was only two years old, Anne Boleyn was accused of unfaithfulness and other serious crimes. The accusations were probably not true, but Henry believed them and had Anne Boleyn executed. Elizabeth grew up without a mother. Much of her girlhood was very unhappy.
King Henry died when Elizabeth was 14 years old. First her half-brother, who was only 10 years old, became king. He died while he was still a boy, at the age of 16. Then Elizabeth’s half-sister Mary, who was seventeen years older than she was, became queen.
At that time the people of England were trying to …show more content…
Many other great English poets and writers lived in the Elizabethan Age. Elizabeth’s reign was a peaceful one for those times, but she had some troubles. First, the Scottish queen, called Mary, Queen of Scots, was accused of plotting to kill Elizabeth and become Queen of England herself. Mary was Elizabeth’s cousin, and she had asked Elizabeth for help when her own people turned against her, but Elizabeth’s courts said she was guilty and Elizabeth let her be put to death. The following year, in 1588, the king of Spain, Philip II, sent a great fleet of warships called the Armada to try to conquer England. But the English navy, led by Lord Howard and two other great admirals, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake, chased the Armada away, and England remained