Queen Elizabeth I

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​The recent Hollywood epic: Elizabeth – The Golden Age (a sequel to the earlier Elizabeth) has inspired greater interest in this famous queen and the tumultuous times in which she lived.  Numerous friends have asked just how much of these films are accurate history and how much is Hollywood fiction.  

England’s Greatest Queen
There is no doubt that Elizabeth I was England’s greatest queen.  She came to the throne of a country deeply divided, economically bankrupt and devastated by the persecutions and oppression of her half sister Mary Tudor (the infamous Bloody Mary whose fanatical obsession to return England to Catholicism so spectacularly backfired.  Bloody Mary condemned hundreds of prominent English Protestants to death by burning at the stake – including the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, the most famous Protestant theologians and preachers Bishops Ridley, Hooper  and Latimer, the Bible translator John Rogers, and many others.) 

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