On February 10 1586, Elizabeth I wrote one of her most famous letters: a furious rebuke to her favourite, Robert Dudley, 1st ...

Elizabeth I makes a rousing speech to the English soldiers gathered at Tilbury. Clip from A History of Britain by Simon ...

The Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598 was the greatest Irish victory of the Nine Years' War. Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, ...

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Catherine de' Medici has met her match. The latest episode of The Serpent Queen introduces a new rival for the 16th-century ruler: Queen Elizabeth I. Played by Minnie Driver, this version of the ...

The iconic “Rainbow Portrait” of Queen Elizabeth I, painted when she was nearly 70 but where she is portrayed as youthful, has been restored and returned to Hatfield House, which sits alongside her ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded for treason in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle in England by order of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. The Queen of Scotland ...

Elizabeth I was the last great ruler of the Tudor dynasty and, much like her forebears, she shaped her public image through portraiture. This summer, a suite of rarely seen paintings that reveal the ...

Queen Elizabeth I's rumored romance with Lord Robert Dudley has inspired the storylines of multiple movies about her life Imagno/Getty Queen Elizabeth I’s reign was defined by power, strategy and an ...

The only surviving dress worn by Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) has gone on display in London in a new museum exhibit. Also, a glove worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her coronation in 1953 and Charles ...