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- When Elizabeth’s sister, Mary, came to the throne she restored the Pope and made England a Catholic country again. Elizabeth now had to settle the situation, maintaining security and establishing an agreement that would keep her people content.
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Elizabeth faced challenges throughout her long reign - from Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Spanish Armada. She was a cautious ruler who acted carefully to preserve England’s security. Part of ...
Elizabeth came to power in 1558, inheriting problems with religion, poverty and. foreign policy. She became queen after both her brother, Edward VI (1537-1553), and her sister, Mary I...
Elizabeth came to power in 1558 and inherited an unstable kingdom. England was divided by religion, poverty was increasing and foreign enemies were growing more powerful. She became queen after...
Sep 8, 2024 · The controversy surrounding her birth was by far her biggest issue when becoming Queen of England. Some people in England did not believe that Elizabeth could become queen as her own father had declared her illegitimate. Her sister Mary arrested Elizabeth in 1554 on charges of treason.
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Like her father before her, Elizabeth took up a position that was very distinctively hers. It was Protestant and it did break from Rome, but it also allowed some room for manoeuvre on the key doctrines – for instance, what was actually happening to the bread and the wine during Communion. Elizabeth also kept a lot of ritual which she was clearly ve...
Elizabeth’s ministers saw danger everywhere. To them, Catholics within England were a kind of fifth column, a sleeper cell waiting to be activated which posed dreadful, dreadful danger. So they were always pushing for more clampdowns and more restrictive laws and practices against Catholics. The queen did try to resist that, seemingly because she s...
People at the time and since have written about Elizabeth being vacillating, emotional and indecisive; you couldn’t pin her down. It is true that she didn’t like taking decisions– and she particularly didn’t like taking decisions that were going to have very big repercussions, such as the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. She resisted that decisio...
The Difficulties for Elizabeth as a Female Ruler. When Elizabeth became queen in 1558, most people wanted a man to be king (or monarch). Women did not have much power in society and Mary I’s reign had been short and unsuccessful (losing a war and running into debt).
Elizabeth I ruled England from 1558-1603. Like many other monarchs, she had to deal with many problems during her reign. The major ones were her image, marriage, religion, her cousin Mary Queen of Scots and the Spanish Armada. Most of the problems were inter-linked.
