The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020
BR ID GE MA N E lizabeth I is an icon. The Virgin Queen is more instantly recognisable even than her monstrously charismatic fat ...
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The death of Anne Boleyn – shown in the Tower of London was the “foundational event” of her daugh- ter ...
A copy of a portrait of Elizabeth aged about 14, probably commissioned by her father, Henry VIII. Having been declared the illeg ...
Anna Whitelock reveals how Elizabeth I used celebrations marking the anniversary of her accession as a weapon in her war against ...
BR ID GE MA N The queen and her court / Accession day An engraving from 1591 shows “The honourable entertainment given to the Qu ...
T he accession day of Queen Elizabeth II, 6 February, is usually marked with gun salutes at the Tower of London and elsewhere in ...
GE TT Y^ I MA GE S The queen and her court / Accession day Queen Elizabeth I is borne aloft by her courtiers during a procession ...
BR ID GE MA N ‘Queen’s Day’ began as an outpouring of public loyalty inspired by failed Catholic plots the market square, and ga ...
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BR ID GE MA N An illustration of c1910 shows Elizabeth arriving at Kenilworth to a welcome from the ‘lady of the floating island ...
HI ST OR IC EN GL AN D An artist’s impression of Kenilworth Castle at the time of Elizabeth’s visit in 1575. Dudley had ordered ...
AL AM Y/G ET TY IM AG ES /M AR Y^ E VA NS conspiring, as Edward VI lay dying, to divert the succession. Nonetheless, Dudley was ...
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT A portrait of Robert Dudley, commissioned from an unknown artist shortly before Elizabeth’s 1575 visit, ...
s Elizabeth’s war with England’s Catholics The violent persecution of priests and recusants s Walter Ralegh: the heroic traitor ...
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Instrument of torture This contemporary engraving shows the Jesuit priest Edmund Campion on the rack. Campion was hanged, drawn ...
BR IDG EM AN /G ET TY IM AG ES Elizabeth I expected outward obedience from her subjects – and that included their church attenda ...
I n 1828, builders removing a lintel over a doorway at Rushton Hall in Northamptonshire were surprised to see an old, beautifull ...
Spain plans an invasion, 1571 The Ridolfi plot – named after the Florentine merchant who acted as the go-between for the Duke of ...
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