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“God forgive you, but I never can” as Queen Elizabeth use to say. Queen Elizabeth's was born September 7, 1533, in Greenwich United Kingdom. In her Early life there was many of chances for her to succeeding. She was third in line behind her Roman Catholic half-sister, Princess Mary. Elizabeth I was the long-ruling queen of England, governing with relative stability and prosperity for 44 years. She was queen for so long they named the time “ Elizabeth Era”. She died in 1603. In Elizabeth's early life the throne seemed very slight once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537. Roman Catholics, indeed, always considered her illegitimate and she only narrowly escaped execution in the wake of a failed rebellion against Queen Mary in 1554. …show more content…
Such as how her country was at war with France. Also many religious problem because Mary killed 300 heretics. That's why they refused to Mary as “Bloody Mary”. During Elizabeth's first session of Parliament in 1559, she called for the Act of Supremacy, it re established the Church of England, and the Act of Uniformity. Elizabeth took a moderate approach to the religious conflict in her country. "There is one Jesus Christ," she once said. However, Catholics did suffer religious persecution and some were executed under her reign.A major accomplishment of the Era was the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 132 by the English fleet of 34 ships and 163 armed merchant vessels. The Roman Catholic Church took a small view of her intentions ,and in 1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth. If Queen Elizabeth never was queen there would be much more political problem in England. People considered her being Queen a blessing. She was able to work out an agreement for all religions March 24 1603 was the last day of Queen Elizabeth's. She died as a Queen who supported her people. Her time on the throne helped get through religious and political obstacles. Her time was sometimes referred to as “The Golden Age”. Today people around the world still miss the way she treated everyone and how she

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