Queen Elizabeth the 1st and her influence on English literature Elizabeth the 1st was the last Tudor monarch. She was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the daughter of Henry VIII and hid second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became a queen in November 1588, succeeding to the throne on her half sister death.
She was very well educated, intelligent, determined, and shrewd.
She died in Richmond palace on 24 March 1603. The date of her accession was a national holiday for two hundred years.
England saw many great voyages of discovery at the time of Elizabeth 1st reign. The expeditions were especially to America and they prepared England to an age of settlement and trade development.
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