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unusual facts about Queen Elizabeth I of England



Bookmark

Some of the earliest bookmarks were used at the end of the sixteenth century, and Queen Elizabeth I of England was one of the first to own one.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.


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Anne Finch

Anne Vavasour (c. 1560 – c. 1650), married name Finch, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England

Maria Stuarda

The opera is one of a number of operas by Donizetti which deal with the Tudor period in English history, including Anna Bolena (named for Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn), Roberto Devereux (named for a putative lover of Queen Elizabeth I of England) and Il castello di Kenilworth.

Robert Dudley

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England