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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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The Queen coined new money specifically for the Company {East India}. Minted at the Tower of London and bearing her arms on one side and a portcullis on the other, it soon became know as the portcullis money. She also granted the merchants a new flag which, with its blue field and background of thirteen red and white stripes, prefigured the one adopted by the Thirteen Colonies of America some 175 years later.
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― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
― Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
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Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.
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― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
― His Last Letter: Elizabeth I and the Earl of Leicester
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