Most known as The Virgin Queen or The Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth, although she had a hard life, she had one of the most properous kingdoms of England and be one the most remarkable woman around the world.
Her childhood wasn´t easy at all. Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn who was executed for alleged adultery against him when Elizabeth was only three years old and her father didn´t feel any affection for her, because he wanted a boy to be the new king after his dead.
She was separated from his father and she was raised by governesses that guide her on the path of education and culture.
In her youth, she passed hard times because her half sister Mary Tudor put her in prison for being a protestant and not become to catholicism.
When her half brother Edward VI died, she inherited the crown, becoming the new Queen of England.
During her reign she lived hard times that she knew how to deal; like the trap created by Mary Tudor against her for for being a devotee of protestantism and the war with Spain which it was at seas, even when Spain had more than one hundred ships and England just had sixty-six, anyway they defeated them because Spain couldn´t control the english seas.
In my opinion Queen Elizabeth was very fair and benevolent, because she listened the voice of the citizens, she considered them as people that had rights just like her. Her thinking was that her people had right to be attended just like her because she was part of that people.
She was a very intelligent woman because she knew how to maintain her power without fall in desperation for a long time.
I think that the fact that she never got married didn´t meant egoism, it was that she wanted that her country wouldn´t fall into wrong hands and maybe that would end in disaster.
I consider that she is a remarkable woman because the hard moments that she passed showed her that nothing was easy, and those things made her strong and intelligent and not just in the rol of queen. Her passion and love for her beloved England made her make good decisions.
I really liked your post, because we are generally used to honor or admire great men, but almost never mentioned a woman as a leader or as a strong person with a polemic view, and also because apart from Elizabeth being a queen, his reign was based on the rights of the people, which we don't used to see often.
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