Elizabeth I

 Elizabeth rode down from Hatfield to London. On January 14, 1959, the day before the coronation, all the London turned out to see her. She did not disappoint them. “Dress in a royal robe  of very rich cloth of gold”. Elizabeth I on her coronation procession set out from the Tower to the sound of trumpets, with an entourage of 1,000 horses, four centuries ago. The most famous of all her progress took place in 1575, when the Queen and an enormous retinue made a triumphal journey through

Northamptonshire. Of all the countries of England, Warwickshire, probably the most attractions than any other for the reason that lies Straitford upon Avon,

William Shakespere’s birthplace and the home to which he retired in Staffordshire where performances of Henry IV that preserves the antiquities of the town, alas at Worchestershire,  and back to Woodstock in Oxfordshire. She arrved on Saturday evening, July 9, 1575. To make her 19-day visit memorable, Leicaster lavished a fortune, on pageantry that excited the whole countryside. William Shakespeare, then only 11, might well have trudged the 13 miles from Stratford to see the marvels. Day after days, pageants and shows grew extravagant. In outer courtyard to see dears for days. The Elizabethans had an insatiable appetite for drama, which provided them with stirring entertainment, moral instruction, and historical information. Shakespeare reflected this theatrical fashion, but he gave to his plays a universality that made them meaningful to all ages. Although Hamlet follows the pattern of blood and thunder murder plays, Shakespeare turned it into an immortal philosophic drama. The impressive ruins of the Earl of Leicaster’s castle at Kenilworth provided a faint clue of grandeur that Elizabeth saw the plays that Shakespere described, the lack of perfection.

          When Elizabeth had to choose a commander to fight the rebellious Earl of Tyrone in Ulster she sent Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex on his way to Ireland on march 27,1599. He failed and returned to

London. With bitter and angry he plotted revenge. On February 8, 1601.Link to The Earl of Essex. The Essex rebellion had failed for this he was sentenced beheaded on the Tower’s yard on February 25, 1601. Through the first three weeks of March in 1603 the Privy Counsil visited her and asked if she approved james VI of Scotland, the son of mary Staurt as her successor. Early on the morning of March 14, 1603. The great Queen left to her successor a great country.