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OF all the sovereigns that have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puz zling, the most fascinating, the most blindly praised, and the most unjustly blamed. To make lists of her faults and virtues is easy. One may say with little fear of contradiction that her in tellect was magnificent and her vanity almost in credibly childish; that she was at one time the most outspoken of women, at another the most untruthful; that on one occasion she would mani fest a dignity thalz was truly sovereign, while on another the rudeness; of filler: manners was un worthy oi even the ageéin which she lived. Some times she was the strongest oi these strong, some times the weakest oi the weak.

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OF all the sovereigns that have ,yom the cro"vn
of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling,
the most fascinating, the most blindly
praised, and the most unjustly blamed. To make
lists of her faults and virtues is easy. One may
say vith little fear of contradiction that her intellect
'was magnificent and her vanity almost incredibly
childish; that she ,vas at one time the
most outspoken of women, at another the most
untruthful; that on ()f')~ occasi0n sl-Je 'N0nld mani-
.). . .' .
fest a dignity tha{ -&'~-,~ i .. ~t.fy s')v~re!gp., vhile on
another the rudeness . .of h~( rr.·anners 'was un
vorthy of even the age~in vrhic!1 ~he lived. Sometimes
she vas the strongcst of !h~ strong, sometimes
the weakest of the weak.
At a distance of three hundred years it is not
easy to balance these claims to censure and to
admiration, but at least no one should forget that
the little white hand of ,vhich she vas so vain

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; chapter page; I The Baby Princess i; II The Child Elizabeth 20; III A Boy King 39; IV Giving Away a Kingdom 56; V A Princess in Prison 75; VI From Prison to Throne95; VII A Sixteenth Century Coronation 113; VIII A Queen's Troubles132; IX Elizabeth and Philip150; X Entertaining a Queen169; XI Elizabeth's Suitors188; XII The Great Sea-captains208; XIII The New World227; XIV The Queen of Scots245; XV The Spanish Armada263; XVI Closing Years , , 280

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