Elizabeth I
Life and reign
The last Tudor monarch, never married and styled the Virgin Queen. Her reign saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, voyages of Drake and Raleigh, and a flowering of drama with Shakespeare and Marlowe. She restored a moderate Protestant settlement after her Catholic sister Mary.
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