Elizabeth: The Golden Age

The Virgin Queen.

Elizabeth I, was called the Virgin Queen, because she did not get married and she did not have children. She only was the mother of her people, England. This was one of the biggest issues that she had to face during her reign.

Phillip II, King of Spain, was totally against Elizabeth I reing, because she was a Protestant and he was the most faithfull Christian. Phillip II thought that England was enslave for the devil, because the Queen was Protestant. That why he started the Holy War against England.

Elizabeth was scared to the war, because if Spain won, England won’t have free will, they were going to “believe “ or “think” what he wanted them to think. Phillip II wanted that every human being were Catholic, devouts of God. He was a truly devout Christian, he believed so much in God that he thought that he spoke to him and told him that he had to kill Elizabeth I building a huge fleet, which he called “God’s work”, because she was not a Catholic.

In adittion to Elizabeth I beliefes, she never got married, and she did not had any children, as I said before. Why? We do not know, but this decision was crucial to the hate that Phillip II already had her because she was not a Catholic. We could see this hate in the movie when Phillip II referred to her as a “zorra” with a lot of loathing and also his allies insulted Elizabeth I calling her “whore”.

Because of this she had to created a very hard personality, she needed to seem as a very powerfull woman. We saw these aspects of her life in the movie when she had to be very strict and dominant, even with the people that she liked; and other times very funny and outgoing, especially with her favorite person, Bess.

Finally, I would like to finish this review with the last phrase that Elizabeth I said in the end of the movie:
“They call me the Virgin Queen, no husband, no owner, childness. I am mother of my people. God give me strenghts to bear this great freedom. I am your Queen, I am myself”