In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat. Elizabeth was briefly ...

Queen Elizabeth I knew she needed to be taken seriously as a woman on the throne, but to do so in 16th-century England was no easy task. She knew that her subjects would have preferred a male ...

She became queen aged just 25 after the death of her brother Edward VI and sister Mary I. The 16th century witnessed more religious change than ever before and Elizabeth’s main priority was to ...