These 11 Facts About Queen Elizabeth I Must Have Been Left Out Of The Books
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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Forget everything you've learned about Queen Elizabeth I—history books always leaves the most fun facts out!
1. She was actually third in line for the throne after her father's death—she only became queen because of her siblings' terrible luck.
2. She LOVED clothes and was a total fashionista.
3. She was a political prisoner, imprisoned when people thought she might have been behind an uprising against Queen Mary I.
4. There are many rumors floating around regarding whether or not she had an affair with Shakespeare, though none have been proven.
5. The queen definitely spoke English, French, Italian and Latin, though a lot of people speculate that she spoken even more languages than that.
6. Her one true love, Robert Dudley, was married, and she refused many prominent proposals because of this.
7. Many speculated she did actually have an affair with Sir Walter Raleigh.
8. She's the only English Queen to date who's never been married!
9. She had the mouth of a drunken sailor, and cursed up a storm.
10. She was a big believer in poverty relief, and feeding the hungry, and she actually pushed a lot of legislation supporting this.
11. There was such effective propaganda around her taking the throne that people started to paint her as a Greek goddess, and this era in art is known at the Cult of Elizabeth.
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