Succeeding to the English throne in 1558, she was the third woman monarch in the nation’s history. The role of English monarch?which involved being commander in chief, head of the English Church, and ...

Queen Elizabeth I is known for many things: defeating the Spanish Armada, restoring Protestantism, setting the stage for ...

Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?” That was the question posed to a dying Queen Mary in 1998’s Elizabeth, director Shekhar Kapur’s grim and dingy film now viewed in retrospect as the origin ...

In Spain, they’re cutting down vast forests in order to build the Armada, with which they intend to impose that country’s grim Catholic will on Protestant England. In a glum castle, Mary Queen of ...