I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat, I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
— Elizabeth I Early Modern

English queen, Golden Age

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Reported saying, during Wyatt's Rebellion

Date / Period

1554 (as Princess Elizabeth)

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Strange & Unusual

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