Queen elizabeth 1

Analysis #1 Gertrude is a character in the Shakespearian play Hamlet. She is the mother/aunt of Hamlet, and she is also the wife/ex-sister-in-law of King Claudius. In the play, Gertrude demonstrates many characteristics and traits as the play progresses. She is a very caring character when Hamlet is thinking about going back to Wittenberg for

With her huge, dramatic collars, ghostly pallor and flaming curls of red hair, Queen Elizabeth I’s image is etched in royal history. Trained from a young age to see power and strength in public image, she cultivated a persona that was both pure and powerful. Unwed and without children, she portrayed herself as the chase,...

Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and half-sister to Mary I. The painting is attributed to William Scrots and was painted in the last years of Henry’s reign. This was painted at a time when Elizabeth and her sister enjoyed a friendly relationship, prior the days when it would become incredibly strained on grounds of religion and politics (and to some degree parentage).

Spectacular image of Cate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth I. From the film ELIZABETH, THE GOLDEN AGE.

On display at Hampton Court Palace since 12 October is the Bacton Altar Cloth, kept for centuries in the small village church, St Faith’s, Bacton, Herefordshire, England. Bacton was the child…

Sir John Harrington was a poet, although not a very good one. He is remembered for something much less romantic: inventing the first flushing lavatory. Harrington was a godson of Queen Elizabeth I...

A remarkable number of the Tudors had ‘red-gold’ hair. Though the largest proportion of red hair in the world comes from Scotland, Ireland, and Teutonic countries, it can show up anywhe…

Which of these famous queens said these quotes?

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