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"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") - Queen Elizabeth I "Since it has satisfied Providence to place me in this place, I will do my maximum to fulfil my responsibility towards my country; I am very young as well as perhaps in many, though not in every things, inexperienced, but I am sure that hardly any have significantly more real good will plus more real prefer to do what's fit and right than I've." - Queen Victoria, 1837 England has had no scarcity of influential monarchs, but only Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria had their nation's get older literally called after them. Both the Elizabethan age and Victorian age attended to symbolize a golden age of tranquility and progress in every aspect of British life, with the long reigns of both queens also providing stability. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign as the second Elizabethan get older. The first one, of course, concerned the reign of Henry VIII's second making it through daughter and middle making it through child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of England's most famous and influential rulers. It had been an get older when the arts, commerce and trade flourished. It had been the epoch of gallantry and great, long lasting literature. It had been also an get older of wars and armed forces conflicts in which men were the primary drivers and women often were pawns. Elizabeth I altered the rules of the overall game and indeed she herself was altered by the overall game. She was a female monarch of England, a kingdom that had unceremoniously broken with the Catholic Chapel, and the Vatican and the rest of Christendom was baying on her behalf blood. She had had commercial and militaristic enemies galore.
