tudor+Queens

= __﻿ Tudor Queens __ = = __Queen Elizabeth __ = =Queen Elizabeth I was the last Tudor monarch. Her reign started in 1558 when she was 25 years old and she was on the throne till she was 69. She became Queen after her half sister Mary I died. She was born in Greenwich palace on the 7th September 1533. Her father was king Henry VIII and her mother was Henry's ﻿second wife Anne Boleyn. =

=Elizabeth was very fond of hunting and was fluent in 6 different languages. She never got married or had children and that is why she was also known as the Virgin Queen. = =Queen Elizabeth was the first monarch to have a flushing toilet thanks to her godson sir John Harington who she had banished from court. It was called an Ajax which was short for A Jakes ( a privy). It took another 200 years for the flushing toilet to catch on. = =The period of Elizabeth's reign later became known as England's Golden Age because of the growing of the Arts, Literature (Shakespeare), Explorations by people like Sir Francis Drake and the rise of foreign trade etc. =

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