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[Chrisiant]

@cleander180 To choose great advisors is no mean skill. And vital for a king. Give credit where it is due. Elizabeth, with her advisors, was a better monarch than her father or grandfather, and quite possibly the equal of Edward the Confessor. She was also a woman doing a job that no one at that time thought women were capable of doing without a man there as her husband to take over when things got tough.

[Chrisiant]

@cleander180 She loved, and was loved by Kat Ashley, Thomas Parry, Frances Moore, and certainly Dudley, and her advisors had great respect and affection for her. Love a prince? I don't know. But you can love a person behind that title. Did she treat everyone well? No. Was she inconsistent, indecisive, occaisionally spiteful? Hell yes. But she knew how to choose great advisors, she was personally brave, she was intelligent, insightful, and now and then, precisely on the mark.

[cleander180]

@Chrisiant loyal to those who loved her? What about Davidson? Sent to the tower and finally made to pay a crippling fine so E could - pointlessly as it turned out - pretend she had no hand in Mary stuart's execution. No-one loved her; respect maybe, but you can't love a prince - as E's mother found out.

[cleander180]

@Chrisiant Henry Tudor would have been destroyed in a one on one with RIII (battle experienced). The sources point to Tudor waiting on a hill overlooking the battle and waiting either to flee or ride in and take the crown when RIII was dead. He was a coward. H8 never personally fought - unlike the French king. Richard was a saint when compared with Tudor - tyrants are always cowards. E was scared of death all her life and I believe it was her advisors who made her 'great'.read Dickens

[Chrisiant]

@cleander180 If Henry the Seventh'd saved Richard, it would have made Bosworth more than a little pointless. And Richard was no saint. But Elizabeth, measured by the yardstick of her father and grandfather was a brilliant politician, and a good queen. Not a saint either, but she was intelligent, wise and loyal to those who loved her.

[fishhead06]

@RaphGirl They are dancing a lavolta at the end, which was considered quite risque in the sixteenth century, because of the intimate contact between the couple. Hence the Duke's reaction.

[PrincessLadyNinja]

Dudley looks like he wants to throw up!

[dustca100]

mispell

[dustca100]

"go on son, you've preeched only 30 minutes. surey you have more" -walsingham, (murphy).

[RaphGirl]

Man those dances were WEIRD