The Haunting Conflict of Elizabeth & Mary (2023) FULL DOCUMENTARY | HD

foreign and Mary Queen of Scots were two of recorded history's most significant most legendary rivals although they never met Elizabeth was the childless Virgin Queen in one Castle body brilliant tactical and cynical on the other hand Mary is feminine Charming romantic and Reckless their decades-long battle over the English crown would end with Mary's beheading at fatheringay Castle with Elizabeth's blessing in 1587. but the two cousins tortured relationship was determined long before during childhood's so dissimilar and defining that they would inform both Queen's characters and seal Mary's tragic fate the Rivalry between the two queens was marked by imprisonment escape and execution Mary Queen of Scots towered over her contemporaries in more ways than one Not only was she a female monar in an era dominated by men but she was also physically imposing standing nearly six feet tall her height emphasized Mary seemingly innate queenship enthroned as Scotland's ruler at just six days old she spent her formative years at the French Court where she was raised alongside her future husband Francis II wed to the dolphin in April 1558 sixteen-year-old Mary already so renowned for her beauty that she was deemed La Blues or the most perfect ascended to the French throne the following July officially asserting her influence Beyond her home country to the European continent as Mary donned Jewel crowns the new English Queen her cousin Elizabeth Tudor Consolidated power on the other side of the channel unlike her Scottish counterpart whose position as the only legitimate child of James V cemented her royal status Elizabeth followed a protracted path to the throne Elizabeth is just the most fascinating figure she is Born the daughter of Henry VIII and amberlynn and she is a crushing disappointment because of course she isn't a boy she spends a difficult childhood and a difficult early adulthood really trying to find her place in the line of succession and in the royal family she finally becomes Queen on the death of her heart Sister Mary in November 1558 and I mean her accession is just an amazing achievement because it's so unexpected um if you'd asked Henry VIII back at his death to rank his children Elizabeth would definitely be the least of his children and yet actually she is the one that we really remember she Reigns for 44 years and it's remembered as a time of General prosperity it's the age of Shakespeare it's the Age of Exploration and Elizabeth's right at the center raining alone now some historians have suggested that Henry was furious at Anne for the delivery of a daughter and indeed that this was the beginning of the end of their relationship but actually we have good evidence that Henry consoled Anne and suggested that the delivery of a healthy daughter was a good sign for the sons that would follow bastardized following the 1536 execution of her mother and Berlin she spent her childhood at the mercy of the changing whims of her father Henry VII upon his death in 1547 she was named third in the line of succession eligible to rule only in the unlikely event that her siblings Edward VI and Mary the first died without heirs which is precisely what happened in 1552 Edward contracts the measles and although he recovers from this illness it is possible that it suppressed his immune system for in 1553 Edward was Gravely ill perhaps with tuberculosis at this time he had no air he hadn't had an opportunity to marry and therefore the question of the succession was a pressing one for him his resolution was to disinherit both of his sisters from the line of succession he did not want the country to revert to Roman Catholicism as it almost certainly would if Mary inherited the throne and he also knew that Henry VIII had delegitimized both of his sisters this would lead the succession very vulnerable indeed in the wake of Edward's Death Lady Jane gray is suddenly proclaimed Queen but Jane is only to Reign for a mere nine days for Mary has the support of the kingdom and also of the Nobles Mary proclaims herself Queen at family and castle and she writes to the nobility to ask for their support and support them they do after only five years on the throne and having provided no air Mary dies in 1558. leaving her throne begrudging me to her Protestant sister Elizabeth was a monarch but it's a man's world Monarch is really the only office that is open to a woman in Tudor England so Elizabeth's Government is made up entirely of men and she immediately sets about appointing Her counsel she inherits some counselors from Mary of course but quickly sets about sending them on their way because actually Marius had a very large and unworkable household she's a woman of Renaissance she killed very few people compared with her father who's did it without thinking about it she suppressed uprisings particularly at the beginning of her Reign and hard and fast what she could do was pick brilliant advisors she was not going to get married I will be master and mistress in my own kingdom and on top of that she made sure then she could batter with all these other countries for their hand she was astute she took a time she didn't snatch at things like her father did and she ruled us for nearly 45 years against all the odds in many ways for ruling on her own but actually when you look at a privy Council there was nothing alone about it I think Elizabeth learned a huge amount about how vulnerable women were to their husbands how subservient they had to be and Elizabeth was also keenly aware from her sister Mary's example that in order to rule as a woman in your own right you really had to do so alone because when a husband is introduced into the equation he automatically becomes king and therefore superior to the queen when Elizabeth became Queen England was a Catholic country and so the question of what the state religion would be was was really on everybody's lips because she was well known to be a Protestant in 1559 she created her religious settlement where she sets the state religion and it was a Protestant church the church of England was Protestant however stunt a staunchly Protestant as it had been in her brother Edward's Reign so Elizabeth tried to take something of a compromise approach something of a middle way um her own inclination wasn't to be quite as Puritan which is the hotter sort of protestant as her brother had been and for example she liked to keep her silver crucifix in the chapel Royal on the altar something that was hugely offensive to the Puritans at her court and Elizabeth wasn't really focused on actual belief it was said of her that she didn't want to make Windows into men's Souls which means she didn't really care what you believed inwardly what she wanted was outward Conformity she wanted you sitting in your Pew on a Sunday in the Church of England service as the Queen of England Elizabeth the first was the beauty standard and women all across the country looked to her for inspiration her fiery red hair was considered to be very beautiful in 1562 Elizabeth felt unwell and said that she would take a bath and the next day it became apparent that she was suffering from severe smallpox it was a constitutional crisis smallpox is obviously a very deadly disease and it was looking like she would die and of course she was the last Tudor there was nobody else so her Council met to decide who would take the throne and it was a very confused picture if you look at strict hereditary the air to the throne was Mary Queen of Scots who was unlikely to appeal to anyone in England she's a Catholic she's educated in France she's a foreign ruler so it's a real constitutional crisis and the privy Council meets to decide who will be the heir May Queen Scots was five foot eleven she had long red gold hair she had high cheekbones she had a beautiful soft her eyes were like a hazel color we seemed to hear and of course the skin would be like new milk because she's red-haired so she was beautiful which is described as graceful she has a wit about a soft wit Mary Queen of Scots when she came here she'd lived in Scotland had to load lowland Scots because she'd lived in France from the age of five right till she left at 18 and her mother was French Mary of geese so she spoke French obviously all the time there but she had to learn lone and Scott to come back not the Gaelic so she was beautiful and gentle there's no question she had sex appeal and she was graceful and she had real style she was profoundly religious in the way that she saw the Catholic faith and she's fertile but above all other things she's had a son with chewed a blood in his veins James it's unsurprising that the tale of these two queens resonates with audiences some 400 years after the leading players lived Mary's story is about murder sex pathos religion and unsuitable lovers add in the Scottish Queen's rivalry with Elizabeth and her untimely end and she transforms into the archetypal tragic heroine Mary Queen of Scots is undoubtedly Elizabeth's rival they are two parallel Queens two queens in one Isle Mary was born in 1542 and when she was six days old she became reigning Queen of Scotland she's the Queen of Scots from birth almost she had a very troubled upbringing before being sent to France where she was engaged to the French doe fan the heir to the French throne she becomes queen of France very briefly but then when her husband dies she returns to Scotland as an independent ruler Mary is undoubtedly the biggest threat to Elizabeth and this is because of her place in the English succession Henry VII of course had three children none of them have any heirs he has no surviving brothers so his next heirs are his sisters Margaret the elder sister and Mary the younger Margaret the elder sister marries James IV of Scots and she has two surviving children Margaret the elder sister is the grandmother of Mary Queen of Scots so Mary is effectively her Heir she is the next hereditary heir to the throne and this really matters to Elizabeth because Elizabeth is still legally illegitimate so legally she has no title to the throne other than by acts of Parliament and by her father's will when Mary Tudor Mary the first dies Mary Queen of Scots actually declares herself Queen of England Because by the laws of hereditary she is next heir to the throne although she later abandons those claims Elizabeth of course is well aware of Mary's position and succession and she is incredibly dangerous to Elizabeth thrall I think Elizabeth chose not to marry for a number of different reasons I think it began at an early age I think she knew from the example set by firstly her mother and then her stepmother Catherine Howard how vulnerable a queen could be at the hands of a king I think this left a psychological imprint on Elizabeth's mind I think the thought of marrying terrified her quite frankly but also Elizabeth was determined perhaps for the first time in her life to have control over herself and of her kingdom she had been left incredibly vulnerable by the downfall of her mother and she had been delegitimized she had been removed from the succession and I think in a way Elizabeth wanted to rule without a husband she knew that if she had married her husband would automatically have become a king regnund and Elizabeth wanted control not only of her own destiny but that of her kingdom too Elizabeth actually receives a deputation from the House of Commons not long after she becomes Queen where they petitioned her to marry and she takes it in very good grace since I've been a child I have decided that I'm going to remain unmarried and I'm going to be a virgin I'm going to reign as a Virgin Queen and it doesn't really cause any stir which is surprising but it really is because just nobody believed her I mean it was a ridiculous suggestion that this young girl of 25 would hope to reign as Queen of course she had to marry of course she had to give England the king her role was to produce heirs to continue the Dynasty when Elizabeth became Queen there was still a lot of prejudice around the idea of having a woman in charge of the country people still believe that that was a man's job and that the title of Queen meant you were a companion to a King Elizabeth had to balance these roles man woman king and queen and she did this by incorporating masculine and feminine elements into her clothes there are lots of paintings of Elizabeth wearing doublets a type of male's dress and she did so to project this idea of her being half King and half Queen and capable of Performing both of those roles Elizabeth unfortunately suffered many illnesses during her early Reign including catching smallpox this created great anxiety throughout the country and not least in her Council Elizabeth of course was unmarried at this point she had no children no air what would happen to the Tudor dynasty if she were to die without one although a reigning Queen does retain some Authority their husband will become king and will be deferred to and become the dominant party and we can see this with Mary the first who marries Philip of Spain and he becomes king of England we can see this in Scotland where Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Henry Lord where Mary Queen of Scots marries Henry Lord darnley and he becomes King Henry of Scots so Elizabeth is expected to marry and give England a king because ruled by a female is seen as unknown although she was it also dubbed the Virgin Queen Elizabeth only embraced this chaste Persona during the later years of her reign at the height of her power she juggled proposals from foreign rulers and subjects alike always prevaricating rather than revealing the true nature of her intentions in doing so the English Queen avoided falling under a man's dominion and maintained the possibility of a marriage treaty as a bargaining chip at the same time she prevented herself from producing an heir effectively ending the Tudor dynasty after just three generations Elizabeth crafted herself this image of the Virgin Queen and this was reinforced in her fashion one of the things that Elizabeth did was wear her hair down and that was something that was typically only expected of unmarried young women she also exposed a liberal amount of decolletage which was also something associated with younger women right the way up until her death pearls were a key part of her look they symbolized Purity and she picked the colors black and white to be her colors they represented Purity and they represented consistency Elizabeth's regime very much uses propaganda and Elizabeth is so adapted it to the extent that actually even today we still to some extent buy into her propaganda we think about her as the Virgin Queen or as Gloriana and she's almost always right at the top of any pole of British monarchs she knew exactly how to present herself partly she uses the image of the Virgin Queen and we'll see this often in portraits of her she has pearls which symbolize her purity and this actually to some extent fills a gap which had been left by the Virgin Mary because of course Protestants do not prioritize the Virgin Mary she's no longer principal Saint so in many respects Elizabeth fills that role and receives the Adoration of her subject she's goddess-like in surviving literature and also the way people refer to her she also very much uses her femininity to her advantage in her propaganda because actually being a woman is a major disadvantage for a ruler in the period And yet actually she is able to use this and to turn it round so there are contemporaries talk of being in love with Elizabeth she's seen as ageless eternally beautiful she's a fairy queen she's Gloriana and actually again we can see this in her portraits because she doesn't age when we see portraits of Elizabeth we're seeing Elizabeth through the mirror of propaganda so her faith remains white and unlined and beautiful throughout her Reign it's only paintings painted after her death where we actually start to see the Aging Queen because any portrait that was unflattering would simply be destroyed Elizabeth was keenly aware of her tenuous hold on the crown from the beginning of her reign as a Protestant she faced threats from England's Catholic faction which favored a rival claim to the throne that of Mary the Catholic Queen of Scots over hers in the eyes of the Catholic Church Elizabeth was the illegitimate product of an unlawful marriage at the same time Mary the paternal granddaughter of Henry VII's older sister Margaret was the rightful English heir religious and political tension was Rife in the Elizabethan period and people utilize dress as a way of showing their allegiance to different factions jewelry was a very helpful way of doing this religious symbols such as crucifixes or the IHS pendant they appear frequently in dress to show where people's allegiances lay it was important to show your loyalty to the crown and lots of people chose to dress in black and white which Elizabeth had picked as her colors or used her symbols such as the armillary sphere Elizabeth's cousin Mary Queen of Scots was a proud Catholic and she wanted everyone to know that at her execution she removed her outer gown to reveal a bright crimson underdress this was incredibly significant Crimson was the color of Catholic martyrdom and she was sending a message to the world that she believed she had been wronged by her political enemies and that till the end she would stay loyal to her faith I think it is safe to say that Elizabeth was a Protestant but when she came to the throne she knew that she had to be pragmatic she knew that she needed to unify her kingdom and therefore she tried to enact a policy almost a don't ask and don't say she stated that she had no desire to open Windows into men's souls and this must have been something of a relief to her kingdom however there were catholic factions who were entirely opposed to Elizabeth's rule they deemed her as illegitimate because of how her mother had been executed and therefore I think it's safe to say that Elizabeth became increasingly intolerant of those with a Catholic faith she saw them as foreign she didn't believe that they could be trusted and this was compounded by numerous plots against her life that were enacted by Catholics Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth's first cousin and she had something of a tempestuous rule in Scotland in indeed she was forced to abdicate her throne because of her actions Mary was forced to flee to England and to seek Refuge with her cousin Elizabeth but Elizabeth knew that Mary as a Catholic would become a figurehead for those who opposed Elizabeth's rule indeed people already thought that Mary had a more legitimate claim to the English Throne therefore Mary was essentially placed in house arrest for the rest of her life Mary was a Catholic Queen in a in abdominantly Protestant state but she formed compromises that enabled her to maintain Authority without infringing on the practice of either religion as she settled into her new role although crowned Queen of Scotland in infancy she spent much of her early reign in France leaving first her mother Mary of guys and then her half-brother James Earl of moray to act as Regent on her behalf she sought to strengthen the relations with her Southern neighbor Elizabeth the Judah Queen pressured Mary to ratify the 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh which would have prevented her from making any claim to the English throne still she refused appealing to Elizabeth as Queens in one Isle of one language the nearest kinswoman that each other had to Elizabeth such familial ties were of little value given her precious hold on the throne and the subsequent paranoia that plagued her Reign she had little motivation to name a successor who could threaten her safety Mary's blood claim was worrying enough but acknowledging it by naming her as the heir presumptive would leave Elizabeth vulnerable to Coos organized by England's Catholic faction this fear-driven logic even extended to the Queen's potential Offspring as she once told Mary's advisor William Maitland princess cannot like their children think you that I could love my own winding sheet despite these concerns Elizabeth certainly considered the possibility of naming Mary her heir the pair exchanged regular correspondence trading warm sentiments And discussing the possibility of meeting face to face but the two never actually met in person any in-person encounter between the Scottish and English Queens would have raised the question of Precedence forcing Elizabeth to declare whether Mary was her Heir or not the fact that the cousins never stood face to face precludes the possibility of the intensely personal Dynamic often projected onto them after all it's difficult to maintain strong feelings about someone only known through letters and intermediaries instead it's more likely that the Queen's attitudes toward each other were primarily dictated by changing circumstances after she realized she couldn't stay in Scotland any longer Mary fled to England and it was the absolute worst decision she could have taken because Elizabeth was a one person who could never allow Mary to have her freedom because Mary is such a threat to her rule when Elizabeth hears that Mary has landed in the north of England she orders that she replaced under house arrest and Mary remains imprisoned by Elizabeth for 20 years the two women never meet Mary is desperate to come to court to plead her case with Elizabeth but Elizabeth will not see her instead Mary slowly begins to lose hope and she starts plotting against Elizabeth and there are several plots at least that her name is mentioned in all that she seems to have had Direct involvement in lastly of course she is involved in the babington plot where she gives her consent to murder Elizabeth and in many respects this is a really sensible policy for Mary because actually where Elizabeth to die at any point during Mary's imprisonment it's really likely that Mary would be declared Queen of England she knows that there's just one heartbeat between her and the English succession what's so interesting about the American Scots and Elizabeth idea is Elizabeth is actually due to visit here in 1571 but Mary had already been so she sort of called off I don't think I want to breathe the same air Mary was Prisoner here for the very first time on the second of February 1569 before that time having escaped from Scotland most had been in Carlisle where she crossed over you know in a boat and was there for a while then she traveled down to England and all that time she was under housekeep because Elizabeth was taking the pulse of every Royal House of Europe with their ambassadors and the quotes were we have the scotch Queen do you want to apparently not so when Mary came here on the 2nd of February 1569 she was told and this Castle was absolutely vast and full of streets and crowded and horses moving around all these things going on she was told she was now a prisoner and of course she was being questioned about the death of her second husband darnley who was a really horrible Man actually that doesn't mean he's entitled to be murdered who wanted to talk to murder him rather but what it does mean is that she had some answering to do because he was very very close to the English throne in succession and he was no doubt about it murdered many people believed she was colluded with her third husband Bothwell Elizabeth had perhaps been astute when imprisoning her cousin Mary for indeed Mary did conspire to overthrow Elizabeth and to place herself on the English Throne Elizabeth reluctantly signed her cousin's death warrant and this was a really difficult move on Elizabeth's part she knew that the execution of anointed Queen could set a precedent so we can perhaps understand Elizabeth's reluctance at making this move so when she came here she had two dead husbands second murdered first husband Francois France the Dothan died young at 17 years of age and then she marries Donnie and I mean Elizabeth must have laughed when she married him because she's reported to saying I'm don't marry her so she sends a beautiful young man in line to the English Throne because she knew his morals were in the gutter his behavior was generally appalling and the layers of Scotland were disgusted this manner come amongst them and the sovereignty being looked after by a child and minority sovereignty as it's called had gone on in Scotland since the early to mid-1400s right the way through it and Mary herself had been as well a child of six days old when she came to the throne so there was all this stuff going on the background so when she arrived here there were these murders and deaths associated with her and on top of that she'd been locked up in Scotland she'd escaped to be in the Battle of langside and she had escaped into England her third Husband by then was going mad in a jail in Denmark he was chained to a concrete post going round and round like a dog and he was extremely attractive and a cousin in their lives a lot of the problem so there's that she left behind her son James who she'd signed over to for the Regency of her bastard half-brother Murray he'd been after it for a long time and she'd lost her son her kingdom and her dignity because at this point she is being shown on leaflets as a crowned mermaid which is a prostitute and the running hair at the bottom which is the symbol of Bothwell Mary married a total of three times as she told Elizabeth's Ambassador soon before her July 1565 wedding to Henry Stewart Lord darnley not to marry you know it cannot be for me darnley Mary's first cousin threw her paternal grandmother proved to be a highly unsuitable match displaying agreed for power that culminated in his orchestration of the March the 9th 1566 murder of the Queen's secretary David rizzio it had been proved without doubt that Mary had consented to murder Elizabeth Elizabeth knew that Mary wanted her dead she agrees that Mary should be tried and of course she's tried for treason and actually a treason trial against Mary is is quite difficult constitutionally because actually she's a foreign ruler can she be tried for treason but she is and she's sentenced to death and this is a real problem for Elizabeth she like Mary is a rare example of a reigning Queen and she really doesn't want to set a precedent for executing a fellow Queen and Mary is also one of her closest relatives Elizabeth doesn't have many relatives she's agonized previously over killing the Duke of Norfolk who was a cousin of hers on her mother's side and it's a similar approach with Mary she just cannot bring herself to sign a death warrant finally after considerable urging from her Council she does sign the warrant and gives it to her secretary and it is immediately dispatched because the council know Elizabeth is likely to change her mind and she does almost immediately but it's too late and Mary is executed relations between Mary and Elizabeth had soured following the Scottish Queen's Union with darnley which the English Queen viewed as threatening her throne but by February 1567 tensions had thawed enough for Mary to name Elizabeth protector of her infant son the future James VI of Scotland and first of England then news of another killing broke this time the victim was darnley himself three months after darnley's death Mary wed the man accused of and acquitted off in a legally suspected trial his murder James Hepburn Earl of Bothwell was a vainglorious rash and hazardous young man according to Ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton despite his differences from darnley he had a violent temper and shared the deceased King's proclivity for power regardless of whether sexual attraction love or faith in Bothwell as her protector against the feuding Scottish Lords guided Mary's decision her alignment with him cemented her downfall in the summer of 1567 the increasingly unpopular Queen was imprisoned and forced to abdicate in favor of her son Bothwell fled to Denmark where he died in captivity 11 years later in May 1568 Mary escaped and rallied supporters for a final battle defeated once and for all the deposed Queen fled to England expecting her sister Queen to offer a warm welcome and perhaps even help her regain the Scottish throne instead Elizabeth placed Mary an anointed Monarch over whom she had no absolute jurisdiction under de facto house arrest consigning her to 18 years of imprisonment under what can only be described as legally gray circumstances it must have been absolutely terrifying for to come here and be told us in fact it was so terrifying that she vomited black blood sign of an ulcer collapsed across the neck of the horse was held down and made a walk in here all this had happened she wasn't even 27. so you can see why some of the Courts of Europe mine have been a bit concerned about the choices that she'd made and in fact she historically you know we have much record of her saying my heart is my own well it isn't she's not a shepherdess running through a field her heart and her womb belong to her people and the decision she made should be for the purposes of trade and peace for the nation's sake and of course Elizabeth was going to be a master and mistress in her own kingdom wasn't she and Elizabeth had a looked up for nearly 19 years so she was here four times in total the last time for 11 months and then the babington plot happened and she went from here and she didn't know that all was no she didn't know that one of her closest Associates was a double agent and all of these things meant that this is a woman who was constantly confronted by betrayal Mary Queen of Scots execution sent shock waves through Europe not least in the devoutly Catholic Kingdom of Spain so much so that this really was the spark of what would become known as the Spanish Armada Elizabeth really showed her metal at a speech that she gave at Tilbury and this is where the mythology of Elizabeth really starts the truth of the matter is that it was more the weather than anything that Elizabeth had done that was the downfall of the Armada but this is where Elizabeth the powerful Virgin Queen really comes into prominent it is at this point that the mythology of Elizabeth begin s execution was a shocking event she was an anointed Queen a monarch in her own right it shocked Europe while Mary's son James who's had his eye very much on the English Throne was prepared to forgive and forget in his relations with Elizabeth Catholic Europe were outraged at the execution because Mary of course had been a queen of France and she's also a Catholic Monarch and her death was very much staged by her to show herself as a martyr as a Catholic martyr Philip of Spain England's former King who had been on hostile terms with Elizabeth for several years was equally outraged he very much saw himself as a defender of Catholicism and he took up Mary's cause and it it's really Mary's execution that Lit the spark of war with Spain and ultimately leads to the Spanish Armada the denim Mont of Mary and Elizabeth's decades-long power struggle is easily recalled by even the most casual of Observers on February the 8th 1587 the deposed Scottish Queen melt at an execution block uttered a string of final prayers and stretched out her arms to Ascent to the full of the hedman's ax three strikes later the Executioner severed Mary's head from her body at which point he held up his bloody prize and shouted God Save the Queen for now at least Elizabeth had emerged Victorious around 8am on February the 8th 1587 the 44 year old Scottish Queen knelt in the Great Hall of fathering gay castle and thanked the headsmen for making an end of all my troubles three acts blows later she was dead her severed head lofted high as a warning to alls who defied Elizabeth Tudor Elizabeth was destined to be the last of her Dynasty and of course she knew this she had no children she had no nephews and nieces there was no one else to carry on the Tudor line so in part of course her Legacy is dynastic change and the fact that the king of Scots became the king of England and United the two kingdoms but her Legacy is so much more than this although she's not the first English reigning queen or the first reigning Queen in the island of Britain she was undoubtedly the woman that proved that women could reign in England she reigned for over 40 years and she reigned independently she didn't have a king and she was very much in control of her kingdom and I think that's her greatest Legacy really it is her contribution to English friendship all subsequent reigning Queens have to some extent model themselves on Elizabeth we see this with Queen Anne in the 18th century for example who when she becomes Queen she actually takes as her motto semper Edom always the same and this was the motto of Elizabeth the first and so this is her Legacy she is the first truly great reigning Queen on the island of Britain and very much this is a legacy that she passed on to subsequent Generations Elizabeth died childless and at the end of her Reign came the end of the Tudor dynasty I think Elizabeth's greatest Legacy was bringing a sense of national identity to England once more there's a lot of debates surrounding the reason why Elizabeth the first died and there is a theory that her makeup might have been the cause the lead that she used to give herself her famous pale complexion may have contributed to her death the Tudor dynasty is an era of such big characters we have Henry VII we have amberlyn we have Elizabeth the first but we also have non-royals we have Thomas Cromwell we have William Cecil we have Robert Dudley trying to marry the queen these individuals are so interesting in themselves and it's also an age of big events it's where the Reformation happens it's the age of William Shakespeare so we have the stage we have the first permanent theaters it's the Age of Exploration we have some water rally attempting to plant his first European colony in the new world so there are big events and there are big personalities and there are also surprising things like The Six Wives of Henry VII which really draws people's attention because it was unprecedented it was seen as bizarre even crazy that the king had Six Wives back in the 16th century and today it still holds our interests there was no Dynasty like the Tudor dynasty for drama I think we all still so obsessed with the Tudors because of how unrealistic it all is if this had been the work of fiction we would think it was pushing credulity I mean this is a family who killed one another this is a family who had a king with six Queens who killed two of them this is a family with feuding siblings it has everything for us to enjoy and we can't get enough of the shooter dynasty was defined by a change in religion a consolidation of power and also the ability to look outwards and both inwards this is an era defined by great cultural advances in the Arts but also as an age of exploration and Empire the Tudors really are Central to our sense of national identity on a service level Elizabethan style didn't disappear once Elizabeth the first had died what she did that was incredibly important for the future of fashion particularly Royal fashion was changed the way the power could be displayed subsequent monarchs would look back at Elizabeth as the golden standard of how to show the world who you are and why you're important actually I think one of Elizabeth's greatest legacies was demonstrating that a queen could rule in her own right without a man she was a queen who did not need a king both queens were surprisingly fluid in their religious inclinations her adversaries primarily invented Mary's promiscuous reputation while Elizabeth's Reign was filled with rumors of her purported romances whereas Mary aged in the relative isolation of house arrest Elizabeth's looks were under constant scrutiny Mary Queen of Scots may have been the Monarch who got her head chopped off still she eventually proved triumphant in a roundabout way after Elizabeth died childless in 1603 it was Mary's son James VI of Scotland and first of England who ascended to the throne as the first to rule a United British Kingdom the queen herself predicted in an eerily prescient motto in my end is my beginning look

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