Article: THE KEY PLAYERS.(Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain)

The two great adversaries of sixteenth-century Europe, Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain, disagreed on almost everything. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII, the man who founded the Church of England. She was also a lifelong opponent of the Catholic Church, and especially of the powerful Catholic response to Protestant criticism. Historians call this response the Counter-Reformation. Elizabeth and her subjects called it "popery," and hated it.

To most of her subjects, Elizabeth was merely behaving as a king's strong and dutiful daughter should. To Catholics, and particularly to Philip, a deeply religious man, Elizabeth was a servant of the ...

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