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=** Queen Elizabeth **= Queen Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. She was born on the 7th of September 1533 and died on the 24 March in 1603 aged 69. She is known as the virgin queen. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Her mother was executed two and a half years after her birth, and Elizabeth was declared an illegitimate queen. Her half-brother, Edward VI and half-sister Mary were both in front in the line to the throne. After Queen Mary died of influenza, Elizabeth became queen. While she was queen, she attained many achievements and created one of the greatest English empires. The Elizabethan Era is known for its flourishing drama, with playwrights such as William Shakespeare. She restored England from the large debt that Queen Mary had left her. Queen Elizabeth was a Protestant like her father. She was a less violent queen than her sister and father, and avoided as many executions as she could. During her reign, she passed the Act of Uniformity, which made church attendance and the use of the common prayer book compulsory, even though the punishments were not that extreme. List of pages:
 * Life in Elizabethan England
 * Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada
 * Evaluation
 * Bibliography