ELIZABETH

(1533-1603), Queen of England and Ireland, d. of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; 6. London}. placed after Edward and Mary in list of succe ion, was imprisoned for two months in the Tower for suspected complicity in Wyat’s rebellion 1554. The Protestant party welcomed her acce ion 1558 after Mary’s persecution; she at once endeavoured to impose uniformity in religion. Her foreign policy was always diplomatic, her finance economical, but diplomacy and economy developed into vacillation and parsimony. She was intensely jealous of Mary Stuart, and indeed of all women, but, largely for political reasons, was unable to marry and had to console herself with flirtations; her affection for E ex was certainly genuine. E.’s work terminated with the destruction of the Armada; she had carefully husbanded England's resources in case of war, and when England's position was made secure she had achieved her end. She grew old and peevish, embittered by the fact that she was the last of her line. As her succe or she favoured James VI. of Scotland