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"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") (Queen Elizabeth I) A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important characters, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' United kingdom Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the start of her reign as the next Elizabethan era. The first one, of course, worried the reign of Henry VIII's second surviving daughter, and midsection surviving child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of England's most well-known and important rulers. It was an era when the arts, commerce, and trade flourished. It was the epoch of gallantry and great, long lasting literature. It was also an era of wars and armed forces conflicts in which men were the principal individuals and women often were pawns. Elizabeth I evolved the rules of the game and indeed, she herself was evolved by the game. She was a female monarch of Britain, a kingdom that experienced unceremoniously broken with the Catholic Chapel. The Vatican, and the rest of Christendom, was baying for her blood. She experienced commercial and militaristic opponents galore. In the long run, she helped change the entire structure of female leadership. Elizabeth was the last Tudor sovereign, the princess of the cruel and spectacular Ruler Henry VIII, and a granddaughter of the Tudor House's creator, the shrewd Henry VII. Elizabeth, hailed as "Good Queen Bess", "Gloriana", and "The Virgin Queen" even today, would go on to improve upon Henry VIII's successes.
