Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I was the queen of England after the death of her older sister Mary I in 1558 to her death in 1603, reigning for 44 years, the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor in England and the forty-first monarch to rule over the country overall, as well as the fifth ruler of the Kingdom of Ireland. She is also referred to as the Virgin Queen and Good Queen Bess.

Biography
Elizabeth was born on 7 September 1533 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, England. Her mother Anne Boleyn, was executed on doctored charges of treason when she was 2 years old. The reason her father had her put on treason was likely because he was hesitant to marry Jane Seymour so he could have the male heir he wanted, and he did, in the form of her younger brother Edward, but Jane kicked the bucket not long after Edward's birth and Edward died when he was only 15 years old and was initially succeeded by Lady Jane Grey, but her reign lasted only nine days and was overthrown and decapitated by Mary I, more commonly known as Bloody Mary due to her being a Catholic who despised Protestants and had several hundred of them cremated. When Mary died in 1558, her younger sister Elizabeth (the one this biography is about) became the queen.

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Trivia

 * The US state of Virginia is named after her.