I am your Queen, and I will be as careful for your good as any mother for her child.
— Elizabeth I Early Modern

English queen, Golden Age

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Context

Speech to Parliament

Date / Period

1559

Category

Shocking

Source

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/elizabeth-is-accession-speech-1559

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