She "might have the body of a weak and feeble woman," queen Elizabeth said, "but she had the heart of a king, and a king of England too". She had risen to power quite unexpectedly after the death of her sister, the Catholic fanatic Bloody Mary. Now it is easy to study the intrigues of the Tudor monarchy online. A whole television series on Elizabeth is available in our British history section. Follow the battlefield drama in her celebrated defeat of the Spanish Armada here or here. Watch a lecture about the way the movies have portrayed Queen Elizabeth or a lecture about Elizabethan performers. The 2007 movie Elizabeth: The Golden Age has been uploaded to stagevu.com and can be accessed here.

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