[tps_title]QUEEN ELIZABETH I[/tps_title]
Elizabeth I became queen of England and Ireland in 1558, succeeding her elder sister Queen Mary I and was the last ruler of Tudor dynasty that was established by her grandfather Henry VII. Because, she never married, she is also sometimes called the Virgin Queen. She established an English Protestant Church, of which she became the Supreme Governor, thus continuing the process which her father, Henry VIII, has started. This religious establishment later became the Church of England. And though older historians idealized her reign, made her a heroine and called her rule, a golden age; modern historians have a more complicated view. Many believe that she was not such a great queen, and in ‘Tudors’, a novel by G.J. Meyer, she is portrayed as someone worried only about her survival.
