Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.

Born into royal turmoil, Elizabeth I faced betrayal, imprisonment, and religious conflict before becoming one of England’s ...

Elizabeth helped create a Church of England that, although Protestant, allowed some of the old Catholic traditions to continue. Elizabeth chose an able set of administrators to aid her during her ...

As the daughter of King Henry VIII, whose six marriages reshaped the monarchy and led to England’s break from the Catholic Church, Elizabeth may have been wary of matrimony. Queen Elizabeth ...

England had endured a period of instability ... Cecil was a moderate Protestant and was not keen to go to war. He worked for Elizabeth well into old age, at which point his son, Robert Cecil ...

wielding Parliament's free speech privileges to urge the queen to take action Elizabeth Tunstall Locals had long shared stories of Collyweston Palace. Then, excavations in England's Midlands ...