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Elizabeth I
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority.
See also Elizabethan Era ...more
See also Elizabethan Era ...more
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Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be; he decided that hers was a profoundly immature political analysis. Yet Elizabeth’s own moral outrage at these same rebels’ affronts to monarchal principles, when, two years later, they refused to obey her commands to release their anointed queen from prison, suggests that Mary was simply being clear
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― When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
― When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
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There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
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