The Queen Elizabeth 1

For 45 years from 1558-1603, a truly remarkable woman governed england, by force of persomality and political skill, queen elizabeth 1 united her divided country and presided over a glorious period in the arts and culture .yet she had to struggle all her life, her mother died when she was only three, her half sister, mary, put her in prison and, as an adult, she was a single woman in a world dominated by men, but elizabeth overcame every adversity, and when she died in 1603, she left england one of the most prosperous and powerful nations in europe.
Elizabeth created a strong public image of herself by adopting the phoenix as her emblem. the "phoenix jewel ", dated around 1574, shows a bust of elizabeth, which a reverse image of the mythical phoenix rising from flames.
Elizabeth spent her life surrounded by suitord, yet she never married.powerful foreign monarchs courted elizabeth throughout her life, eager for a stake in her flourishing kingdom, but she played her suitors off against each other for political gains, elizabeth gloried in her role as the virgin queen ,using it to create a national self -confidence that fuelled a flowering of the arts, distinguished by william shakespeare, the poet edmund spenser, and composers such as thomas tallis. elizabeth was really a great queen.