Posted: December 30th, 2015

Is Good Queen Bess An Accurate View of Queen Elizabeth?

Introduction
Explain the term Good Queen Bess. What does it mean?
Highlight the key points in her reign.

Section 1
Agree with the statement, explain why people believed she was good, include quotes.

section 2

Disagree with the statement explain why people thought she was bad with detailed examples. Use quotes.

Conclusion

Answer the question and explain why give your overall judgement on whether or not she was a good queen.

Quotes to use – Elizabeth speaking to her troops on 18th August 1588 before the Spanish Armada.
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and the stomach of a King, and a King of England too, and … (I am angry that ) Spain … should dare invade the border of my realm.

Robert Ascham, one of Elizabeth’s teachers. “She is most eager. Her mind has no womanly weakness; her perseverance is equal to that of a man and she has a long memory. She talk French, Italian as well as English, and has often talked to me in Latin and Greek. She has beautiful handwriting and is a skilled musician.

An extract from the last letter of Mary Queen of Scots =. “Royal brother, having by gods will for my sins I think thrown myself into the power of the Queen my cousin at whose hands I have suffered much for almost twenty years, I have finally been condemned to death by her and her estates.