The Final Years of Elizabeth I's Reign

Historians have often depicted the final years of Elizabeth I’s reign as a period of decline or crisis. Yet her government operated more successfully than is usually thought.

'Eliza Triumphans' by Robert Peake c.1601 shows Elizabeth in procession to Blackfriars with her courtiers. Bridgeman/Private Collection

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