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England's first Queen Elizabeth provided her name to the age. Inheriting a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country, she healed its religious rifts, replenished its treasury, redefined diplomatic guile, defeated the Spanish Armada, and influenced a fresh flowering of English culture. Her father, Henry VIII, beheaded her mother, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth was declared a bastard. As Henry retained marrying and discarding wives, she had to be adroit and canny to you shouldn't be snared in the techniques of courtiers plotting to win the crown. So when at last she ascended the throne, her councilors informed her she could endure only by marrying. But she reigned for 44 years as Glorianna, the "Virgin Queen" whose wit, evasions, and towering intellect frustrated opponents both within and outside her island kingdom. The greater we realize about Elizabeth's never-ending complexity, a lot more remains to be discovered. Here's a start.

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