Elizabeth I. The "Rainbow Portrait", c. 1600, an allegorical representation of the Queen, become ageless in her old age
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The "Hampden" portrait, by Steven van der Meulen, ca. 1563. This is the earliest full-length portrait of the queen, made before the emergence of symbolic portraits representing the iconography of the "Virgin Queen".[76]
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Elizabeth I, painted after 1620, during the first revival of interest in her reign. Time sleeps on her right and Death looks over her left shoulder; two putti hold the crown above her head.[185]
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Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, by William Segar, 1588
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Portrait of Elizabeth I attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger or his studio, ca. 1595.
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Elizabeth I in her coronation robes, patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine.
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Mary I, by Anthonis Mor, 1554
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The Lady Elizabeth in about 1546, by an unknown artist
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Sir Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary 1573–1590. Being Elizabeth's spymaster, he uncovered several plots against her life.
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Portrait of Elizabeth to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), depicted in the background. Elizabeth's hand rests on the globe, symbolising her international power.
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The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, a translation from the French, by Elizabeth, presented to Catherine Parr in 1544. The embroidered binding with the monogram KP for "Katherine Parr" is believed to have been worked by Elizabeth.[20]
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Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, Moorish ambassador of the Barbary States to the Court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600.[134]
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Half groat of Elizabeth I
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Ivan the Terrible shows his treasures to Elizabeth's ambassador. Painting by Alexander Litovchenko, 1875
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Coat of arms of Queen Elizabeth I, with her personal motto: "Semper eadem" or "always the same"
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Elizabeth was the only child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who did not bear a male heir and was executed less than three years after Elizabeth's birth.
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Elizabeth and her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, c. 1575. Pair of stamp-sized miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard.[51] The Queen's friendship with Dudley lasted for over thirty years, until his death.
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Elizabeth's funeral cortège, 1603, with banners of her royal ancestors
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