Part one: Elizabeth's court and parliament
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- Part one: Elizabeth's court and Parliament
- Elizabeth I and her court
- Background and character of Elizabeth I
- Anne Boleyn
- Bloody Mary
- Treason
- Henry VIII
- Educated
- Strong willed
- Legitimacy
- Right to rule
- Determined
- Self-reliant
- Court life, including patronage
- Justices of the Peace (JPs)
- Patronage
- Duties at court
- Lord Lieutenants
- Privy Council
- A group of trusted ministers who advise a monarch
- Only 19 members
- Parliament
- The supreme legislative body. Made laws and decided about taxes
- Officials
- Servants
- Advisors
- 500 courtiers
- Key ministers
- William Cecil
- Francis Walsingham
- Secretary of State
- Background and character of Elizabeth I
- The difficulties of a female ruler
- Relations with Parliament
- Peter Wentworth
- Only met 13 times in 44 years
- Difficult relationship
- The Queen had the power to call, dissolve and prorogue Parliament.
- Prorogue - postpone
- The problem of marriage and succession
- Robert Dudley
- Francis, Duke of Anjou and Alencon
- Questioned woman's ability to reign alone
- Alliance with foreign power
- Problem
- Religon
- Problem
- Produce an heir
- King Phillip of Spain
- Former Husband of Mary I
- Suitors
- The strengths of Elizabeth's authority at the end of her reign.
- Roberto Ridolfi
- Robert Devereux - Earl of Essex
- Earl of Westmorland
- Earl of Northumberland
- Refused to name a successor
- Political insecurity
- Loyalty remained firm to the Queen
- Relations with Parliament
- Elizabeth I and her court
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