Elizabeth`s Image Making

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  • needed to promote image of perfect health and strength
  • seen dancing with ambassadors and leading chase on horseback / out hunting
  • reality = different - prone to fainting, had headaches, short sighted and had chronic toothache
  • crucial that her image is carefully cultivated
  • 'royal progress' (at least 25) involved staying at the homes of leading subjects to show the human face of the monarchy
  • deliberately toned down extravagence at court to save money and portray herself as hard working and careful
  • every day 13 poor men at the palace gates were given a small sum of money (5 old pence / 2p) - this continued all year but giving to the needy peaked…

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