elizabeths character

• she was confident and charismatic enabling her to win over her subjects and command support in parliament
• she was resilient and clilld cope with the pressure of being queen
• she was well educated and spoke multiple languages
• she had an exelent grasp of politics she understood the interests and ambitions of her subjects and was able to use her powers of patronage effectively
• Elizabethwas protestant and the number of protestant in England was growing making her position of queen more secure
• Elizabethwas able to use her strengths to reinvent herself as a different type of monarch
• Throughout her reign she was happy to portray herself as strong legitimate and popular and a virgin queen married only to England and not a man this is reflected in paintings showing her as not only confident but feminine
• Charismatic leader 


  someone who poses great personal appeal and can use this to win people over
• Legitimate ruler


  Someone who is legally and morally entitled to rule
• divine right 


  the idea that God alone appointed the monarch meaning that to challenge the monarch was to challenge God
• protestants 


  christians who no longer accepted the authority of the pope and many teachings of the Roman Catholic church during the reformation (began 1517)
• patronage


  the monarch could use the granting of lands, jobs and titles to reward her supporters people who received these positions could use them to become wealthy