Did you know.....

Did you know.....

Elizabeth I, nearly married her sister's husband

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Mary’s husband, Philip II of Spain, proposed to Elizabeth after Mary’s death.

Elizabeth turned Philip down, and eventually fought a war against him, the Spanish Armada.

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Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait'), Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, National Portrait Gallery, London