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Article: Elizabeth I (England) (1533–1603; Ruled 1558–1603)
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ELIZABETH I (ENGLAND) (1533
–
1603; ruled 1558
–
1603)
ELIZABETH I (ENGLAND)
(1533
–
1603; ruled 1558
–
1603), queen of England and Ireland. The daughter of Henry VIII by his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was rendered a bastard by Henry's repudiation and execution of Anne in 1536. She was, however, reared as a princess and received the same education in the classical curriculum as her half-brother, Edward VI. In her father's will Elizabeth was placed third in succession to the throne after her two siblings, Mary and Edward. In her Catholic half-sister Mary's reign, Elizabeth fell under suspicion for her supposed Protestant sympathies and, in the wake of the ...