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IMAGES:

Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard (1575) By Nicholas Hilliard (called) (1547 - 1619)Details on Google Art Project - VgG8ronTPh8jDg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21894152

Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn By Dancingtudorqueen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111570074

Jane Seymour By Hans Holbein the Younger - egE1bExAbnBDgg — Google Arts & Culture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22189674

Edward VI of England By Circle of William Scrots - Sotheby's London, 04 July 2012, Sale L12033, Lot 10; direct link: [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20165105

Catherine Parr By After Master John - http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1276906https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/queen-catherine-parr-15121548-170943/view_as/grid/search/keyword:catherine-parr/page/1#, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13408812

The Old Palace at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire By Acabashi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42089397

Mary I and Philip II of Spain By anonymous - http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/14425, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62809943

Catherine of Aragon By Lucas Horenbout - radikal.ruportraitsofkings.com, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74534391

Gold medal showing "Mary I, Queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith" (1555) By Jacopo da Trezzo - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71806834

Thomas Wyatt the Younger led the failed rebellion By Hans Holbein the Younger - The Weiss Gallery, London, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22401017

View of Allington Castle, Wyatt's home in Kent By Photochrom Print Collection - Library of CongressCatalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2002697023, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33241877

Elizabeth I in her coronation robes By Unknown author - Scanned from the book The National Portrait Gallery History of the Kings and Queens of England by David Williamson, ISBN 1855142287., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6639542

Portrait of Elizabeth I from 1586 to 1587 By Nicholas Hilliard - Nationalmuseum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73624399

The execution scene, drawn by eyewitness Robert Beale By Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth I - British Library, Additional Manuscript 48027, folio 650[1] from Robert Beale's The Order and Manner of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, Feb. 8, 1587., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63563959

Titian's portrait of Philip as prince (1551) By Titian - Museo del Prado., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=140998

English fireships launched at the Spanish armada off Calais By anonymous - Royal Museums Greenwich Collections, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59443607

Destruction of the Invincible Armada, by Spanish painter Jose Gartner (1892) By José Gartner - [3], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31980586

Route of the Spanish Armada By Robert Adams, Augustine Ryther - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/displayRepro.cfm?ReproID=F8038&picture=1#content, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4447929

Defeat of the Spanish Armada, by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1796) By Philip James de Loutherbourg - Unknown source, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=528316

A scale model of the Globe Theatre in London Haklai, Y. (2020, June 11). Globe Theatre Model. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12361/globe-theatre-model/

A c. 1610 CE portrait of William Shakespeare Artist, U. (2020, June 10). William Shakespeare. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12357/william-shakespeare/

Procession of Shakespearean characters Artist, U. (2020, June 11). Procession of Shakespearean Characters. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12363/procession-of-shakespearean-characters/

A map illustrating the flourishing English trade with Europe during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England (r. 1558-1603) Netchev, S. (2021, December 15). Elizabethan Trade with Europe, c. 1600. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/14997/elizabethan-trade-with-europe-c-1600/

"East India House," by Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) By Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) - Yale Center for British Art [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24958163

Holiness defeats Error: an illustration from Book I, Part l of an 1895–1897 edition By Walter Crane - Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/gm58s9, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41029071

Portrait of Elizabeth I in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence By Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/english-school/queen-elizabeth-i-of-engl.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5164479

Elizabeth Tudor as a Princess, c. 1546, by an unknown artist By Presumably William Scrots - wartburg.edu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=686176

The Hardwick Hall Portrait, the Mask of Youth, Hilliard workshop, c. 1599 By Workshop of Nicholas Hilliard - Scanned from Jane Ashelford, The Art of Dress, London, National Trust, 1996, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4658944

Portrait by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1576-78) By Attributed to Nicholas Hilliard - image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59455175

The unfinished miniature by Isaac Oliver (c. 1592) By Isaac Oliver - Scanned from Karen Hearn, Marcus Gheeraerts II Elizabeth Artist, London: Tate Publishing 2002, ISBN 1854374435, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5066344

James VI and I By Attributed to John de Critz - Prado image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37047

Elizabeth I receiving Dutch ambassadors (ca. 1560s) By Levina Teerlinc, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=686182

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley By Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - This file was derived from: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley from NPG (2).jpg:, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105117150

Sir Francis Walsingham Von Tudor Portraits. Extracted originally from en.wikipedia.org English Wikipedia, retract by John de Critz, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=232071

Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester By Steven van der Meulen - https://waddesdon.org.uk/the-collection/item/?id=3289, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1583840

Queen Elizabeth and Leicester, by William Frederick Yeames (1865) By William Frederick Yeames - François de Dijon, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33861735

The Death of Amy Robsart, as imagined by William Frederick Yeames By William Frederick Yeames - http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=16506&searchid=31997&tabview=image, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1608104

The Woburn Abbey version of the Armada Portrait, c. 1588 By Formerly attributed to George Gower - http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizarmada.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28313

Pair of miniatures of Elizabeth and Leicester (c. 1575) By Nicholas Hilliard - http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01524/Elizabeth_1524100c.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10344211

Silver coin of Elizabeth I of England By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75506449

Elizabeth I and the Three Goddesses, 1569 By Attributed to Hans Eworth - http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Eworth_Elizabeth_I_and_the_Three_Goddesses_1569.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5062556

Henry VIII By After Hans Holbein the Younger - eAHC0d0WiemXSA — Google Arts & Culture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21878559

The Plimpton Sieve Portrait, by George Gower (1579) By George Gower - http://www.folger.edu/html/exhibitions/elizabeth_I/sieve.asp, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5076344

The Virgin in Prayer, by Sassoferrato (c. 1650) By Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato - Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1432637

The Pelican Portrait, probably by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1575) By Nicholas Hilliard (called) (1547 – 1619)Details on Google Art Project - VgG8ronTPh8jDg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21894152

Pope Pius V By Bartolomeo Passarotti - https://art.thewalters.org/detail/23806/portrait-of-pope-pius-v/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=112800161

Queen Elizabeth I (c. 1570) By Hans Eworth - http://www.agecrofthall.com/Gloriana/pages/exhibits.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5178399

Mary, Queen of Scots, by François Clouet (1542-1587) By François Clouet - YQExprz3sIBJ8A at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22127280

Mary in captivity, by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1578) By Nicholas Hilliard - Cropped from File:MaryQOSmin1.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18699390

Contemporary depiction of the queen's litter By Unknown author - http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/Elizabeth41.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8853349

A print of Act III, Scene i: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!" By Thomas Robinson (printmaker) - Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/v91611, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41026758

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