Elizabeth

There was hatred towards Elizabeth, to her way of ruling her country, but it is good to keep in mind that the country itself was doing great. “The country felt younger and more vital than its queen…England was full of newness and potential: its population burgeoning, its merchants fleets combing the world, London growing like a hothouse plum, the son of gentleman crowding as never before into the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, plants and fruits from all over the world arriving in its gardens and on its table- but the rigid carapace of Elizabethan court lay like a cast-iron lid above it. The queen’s motto was still what it always had been: Semper endein, Always the same.” Pg 2 But what came to me will I read “Semper endein, Always the same” that maybe the people hated her because she always ruled the same way she never had new ideas for her country, to lead them towards success. “The old war against Spain, which had achieved its great triumph of defeating the armada in 1588… Englishmen whose taxes were paying for it. The London and Bristol merchants wanted only one outcome: an end to war, so that trade could be resumed…Elizabeth had survived by ignoring problems or suppressing them and as a result England was a cauldron which had not been allowed to boil” pg 2-3