It is not my desire to live or reign longer than my life and reign shall be for your good. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this royal seat, yet you never had, nor shall have, any that will love you better.
— Elizabeth I Early Modern

English queen, Golden Age

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Golden Speech

Date / Period

1601

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/elizabeth-is-golden-speech

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