Queen Elizabeth. From Francis Lancelott, 
                                    The Queens of England and Their Times.

Queen Elizabeth I

Milestones

1533
Birth
to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
1554-1555
Ordeal
Imprisonment; accused of sympathizing with Protestant rebels
1558
Death
Queen Mary (sister)
1558
Vocation
Takes throne
1559
Religion
"Elizabethan Religious Settlement"
1588
Ordeal
Defeat of Spanish Armada
1603
Death
Memorial
Emotional funeral procession to Westminster Abbey

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Alison Booth and Agnes Strickland

Agnes Strickland (a writing team that included her sister) entitles her chapter on Elizabeth I "SECOND QUEEN-REGNANT OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND" (Elizabeth's sister Mary being the first). The student of queens cares a great deal about what power the women actually wielded; most were consorts and, far from reigning, found themselves pawns in political chess. Alternatively, most queens encountered conflict between their voluntary liaisons and involuntary matrimony. Strickland's narratives are notable for drawing on contemporary documents.

An interpretation of Strickland's influential biographical history, condensing the text of "Queen ELIZABETH I." from Agnes Strickland, Queens of England. New York: Appleton, 1854. pp. 271-84. The US edition significantly uses the term "from," and is itself probably abridged in ways it would be worthwhile to trace.