On This Day November 17

The Elizabethan age began when Elizabeth I acceded to the English throne on November 17, 1558, following the death of her half sister Mary. Elizabeth was told the news of her accession to the throne whilst sitting under an oak tree in the Hatfield Palace gardens. She reacted by getting on her knees and quoting Psalm 118 “This is the Lord’s day. It is marvelous in our eyes.”

Elizabeth I in her coronation robes, 

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