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Elizabeth I: Fictions and Realities

Judith Richards strips away the veils of illusion covering the last Tudor monarch.

Judith Richards | Published in History Review Issue 72 March 2012

Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. By George Gower.

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