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Claire | November 27, 2009
Amberley Publishing, the publisher of this biography of Elizabeth I, describe this as “An accessible biography of Elizabeth I by a leading Tudor expert” and say:-
“Elizabeth I stands in the English imagination for one of the formative phases of English history. Her reign saw England transformed, at her command, from a Catholic to a Protestant
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Claire | November 24, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving to all our US visitors, I hope you have a great day tomorrow with your friends and family. In the UK and the rest of Europe we don’t have Thanksgiving, although my church in the UK did have a harvest festival service, and all I knew about Thanksgiving was that it was something
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Claire | November 19, 2009
Following on from the Bisley Boy legend and the myth that Elizabeth I was really genetically male, I just had to write about Arthur Dudley, a man who has been the subject of books and documentaries, a man who some say was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley.
I decided to research the
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Claire | November 12, 2009
My inspiration from this article comes from the comments left on my “Bisley Boy” post, particularly the one left by historian and author Leanda de Lisle who said:
“I’m afraid this kind of sexist myth about Elizabeth is not that uncommon. In the sixteenth century it was believed that women who exercised power over men lost
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Claire | November 5, 2009
Tonight in gardens and fields all around the UK people will be letting off fireworks, burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires and getting together for spectacular fireworks shows and parties, a tradition that dates back to 5th November 1605 when Protestants lit bonfires to celebrate the failure of the Catholic Gunpowder Plot.
I know that
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Claire | November 4, 2009
Don’t you just love conspiracy theories?! 911, Roswell, the moon landing, JFK, Princess Diana, Michael Jackson…the list goes on, but did you know that there is a conspiracy theory relating to Elizabeth I which, if true, would make our present day Queen actually Queen Elizabeth I rather than Elizabeth II?
Before I go into the story,
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