Queen Elizabeth I Research Paper

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“I Know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king!” Queen Elizabeth I the only daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, received a first class education in literature. Elizabeth had also received an education of politics in England that was not much interesting to her. She had the parliament question her birth which led her to serving time in prison. At Woodstock, the princess wrote poetry, which later became famous. At the age of twenty-five Elizabeth accepted the throne of one of the most important monarchs in the sixteenth century. Around the 1560s Elizabeth decided to mount an armed assault against Ireland. She allowed the military officers to use whatever they need, in order to get the native

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