. Historical portraits ... e was ready to marry her. That death on November 17, 1558, called to the throne ofEngland a splendid young woman of twenty-five, who had all thevirility, all the intellectual power, all the strong will of Henry VIII ;much of the coarseness of Anne Boleyn; and more still of theforesight, caution and parsimony of her grandfather Henry character as well as her actions were a standing puzzle to hercontemporaries; yet, when she seemed to be most guided by purecaprice, her foresight and her subtlety often turned out to haveproduced results for which no one else cou
. Historical portraits ... e was ready to marry her. That death on November 17, 1558, called to the throne ofEngland a splendid young woman of twenty-five, who had all thevirility, all the intellectual power, all the strong will of Henry VIII ;much of the coarseness of Anne Boleyn; and more still of theforesight, caution and parsimony of her grandfather Henry character as well as her actions were a standing puzzle to hercontemporaries; yet, when she seemed to be most guided by purecaprice, her foresight and her subtlety often turned out to haveproduced results for which no one else could have schemed suc-cessfully. No sovereign ever was confronted with such difficulties ataccession; an empty treasury, a frightfully debased coinage ; theloss of Calais not a year old ; a rival candidate for the throne, Maryof Scotland, with all the power of France at her back; a doubtful allyin Philip of Spain ; a people torn by religious divisions. Whicheverway Elizabeth turned it seemed as if she must offend half Europe. QUEEN ELIZABETH From the portrait at Ditchley belonging to the Viscount Dillon Face /. 68 ELIZABETH 69 and half her own subjects. Her reign may be conveniently dividedinto three parts ; during the first of these she successfully establishedthe new Church on the basis of moderate Protestantism which it hasretained ever since, she compelled fanatics on both sides to accept itor to keep silence; she began her skilful system of underhandsupport to rebels in France, Scotland and the Netherlands; and shemanaged to defer open quarrel or open alliance with any Europeanpower. But with the flight of the Scottish Queen to England (1568),the rebellion of the North in that Queens favour (1569) and her ownexcommunication in 1570, the second period begins, and the dangersgather thickly round England and the Queen. The Papal-Catholicpropaganda has assumed very large proportions, and its aim is thereconversion of England and the death of Elizabeth. Mary is a centrefor all di
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