Mrs. Raymond - The mother of Gerald and Geraldine, eight-year-old twins whom Anne looks after while Mrs. Raymond attends a funeral. Thomas Tallis and William Byrd led a Renaissance revolution in music, while the composer and musician John Dowland made the lute a popular accompaniment for all festivities. William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe directed Elizabethan cultural confidence onto the stage, while adventurers like Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh took Elizabethan ambition abroad. Raleigh sponsored the first British colonies in North America, naming ‘Virginia’ after the Queen, while Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577-80. Elizabethan England traded with Russia, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire.

The threat posed by the former subsided with the 1562 outbreak of the War of Religion in France, and Elizabeth responded to the latter by returning England to Protestantism and having Parliament formalize certain aspects of the Church of England’s doctrine. Princess Elizabeth was granted the rank of honorary junior commander • After a year of begging permission from her father, King George VI, Elizabeth was allowed to join the British Armed Forces during WWII, making her the first female from the British royal family to serve in the military. [11]In January 1549, Seymour was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower on suspicion of conspiring to depose his brother Somerset as Protector, marry Lady Jane Grey to King Edward VI, and take Elizabeth as his own wife. Elizabeth, living at Hatfield House, would admit nothing. Her stubbornness exasperated her interrogator, Robert Tyrwhitt, who reported, "I do see it in her face that she is guilty". [30] Seymour was beheaded on 20 March 1549. [31] Reign of Mary I Mary I and Philip, during whose reign Elizabeth was heir presumptive The Old Palace at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire, where Elizabeth lived during Mary's reign The Queen’s husband was born “Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark”; became “Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten of the Royal Navy” during his service to the armed forces; and, upon his marriage to Elizabeth, was finally dubbed “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich." [5] How easily this might have turned her head: from her parents and grandparents she learned humility and modesty. Showing off and crowd pleasing, Queen Mary made clear, were appropriate only for actresses. “Princess Elizabeth is safer from spoiling than the average rich American son or daughter,” noted one American observer approvingly. Queen Elizabeth I inherited several issues from the reign of her predecessor, Queen Mary I, including an unpopular war with France and the religious divisions that Mary’s campaign against Protestantism had left behind.

Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral, proved a poor choice of guardian for Elizabeth. Within days of joining his wife, Katherine Parr at Sudeley Castle, Elizabeth began to receive early-morning visits from the 38-year-old Seymour, who would appear in her room dressed in his nightclothes. Elizabeth was protected by her governess, Kat Ashley, who warned him off.

The Seymour Scandal

Terry Garland - Hazel's beau whom Anne believes would fall in love with any pretty girl. He considers their engagement to be nothing more than childish nonsense. There are so many ways to read this story. Lizzie as inherently passive. Lizzie as a good-natured child. Lizzie as a character in a novel engaging in some good, old-fashioned foreshadowing. That last one is the one I cannot shake: Lizzie sitting obediently as her family built a sepulcher of words around her. People who have studied anything about Little Women know that the novel is based, roughly, on Louisa’s family, a clan of thinkers, artists, and transcendentalists who rubbed elbows with some of the premier minds of their time: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller. Esme Taylor - Trix's sweet, timid sister who is madly in love with a college professor and fears he will not propose because of her family. Elizabeth's foreign policy was largely defensive. The exception was the English occupation of Le Havre from October 1562 to June 1563, which ended in failure when Elizabeth's Huguenot allies joined with the Catholics to retake the port. Elizabeth's intention had been to exchange Le Havre for Calais, lost to France in January 1558. [121] Only through the activities of her fleets did Elizabeth pursue an aggressive policy. This paid off in the war against Spain, 80% of which was fought at sea. [122] She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets. An element of piracy and self-enrichment drove Elizabethan seafarers, over whom the queen had little control. [123] [124] Netherlands Elizabeth receiving Dutch ambassadors, 1560s, attributed to Levina Teerlinc