Elizabeth I was born in the year 1533 and died in the year 1603.  She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.  Elizabeth was the longest reigning English monarch in almost two centuries and she was the first woman to successfully occupy the throne of England.  She was also called Gloriana and Good Queen Bess.  Elizabeth was extremely popular during her life and she became an even

            Elizabeth’s reign was marked by her successful use of Parliament and the Privy Council, a small group of important state officials, and by the development of legal institutions in the English counties.  Elizabeth firmly established Protestantism in England, encouraged commerce and enterprise, and she defended the nation against the very strong Spanish naval force known as the Spanish Armada.   Her reign was well known for the English Renaissance, and a large amount of poetry and drama led by poets such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe that remains unbeaten in English literary history.  She was the last of the Tudor monarchs.  She was never married and she never produced offspring.  Her cousin, James VI of Scotland, succeeded her when she died in 1603.zabeth I was born in the year 1533 and died in the year 1603.  She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn.  Elizabeth was the longest reigning English monarch in almost two centuries and she was the first woman to successfully occupy the throne of England.  She was also called Gloriana and Good Queen Bess.  Elizabeth was extremely popular during her life and she became an even

greater legend after her death.