Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death in 1603. Here are 15 things you might not know about Good Queen Bess. She very nearly wasn’t queen at all.

Elizabeth I is one of England's greatest monarchs – perhaps the greatest. Her forces defeated the Spanish Armada and saved England from invasion, she reinstated Protestantism and forged an ...

In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat. Elizabeth was briefly ...

I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too. The defeat of the Spanish Armada is often talked about as the crowning achievement of Elizabeth I's golden age and a defining ...

Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty; Oli Scarff - WPA Pool/Getty Finding out how the late Queen Elizabeth took her tea was harder than one might think. That’s according to Prue Leith, star of The Great ...

Mary, Queen of Scots, the rightful monarch of Scotland, was most known for her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I of England, one ...

The removal of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh from 10 Downing Street, where Prime Minister Starmer now lives, is an outrageous cashiering of two of England’s glories that bodes ...

Her father died just a week after her birth. A fervent Roman Catholic and a claimant to the English Crown Mary was a great danger to her cousin Elizabeth I. When Mary fled to England after her army ...

This portrait of England's "Virgin Queen" (Cate Blanchett) is a lush, romantic political thriller about the tumultuous reign of Elizabeth I, whose love for the dashing and duplicitous Earl of ...