Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death in 1603. Here are 15 things you might not know about Good Queen Bess. She very nearly wasn’t queen at all.

Queen Elizabeth I took the crown of England on January 15, 1559 and ruled until her death in 1603. Here are 15 things you might not know about Good Queen Bess. She very nearly wasn’t queen at all.

Within the ground were the timbers of a ship that date back to the reign of Elizabeth I. The monarch was Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 until 1603, and is regarded by some historians as ...

Elizabeth I is one of history’s greatest monarchs. During her 16th century reign, England was transformed from a European backwater into a major power, bustling with commerce and flowering in ...

Queen Elizabeth I's favorite pirate was an English hero, but his career has a dark side. Sir Francis Drake earned glory for England by plundering Spanish targets around the world.

LONDON — At the start of “Becoming Elizabeth,” a new Starz series about the little-depicted teenage years of Queen Elizabeth I of England, a carriage clatters through a rain-drenched dawn ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was gruesomely beheaded by order of England's Queen Elizabeth I on this day in history, Feb. 8, 1587. Mary was convicted of plotting to overthrow Elizabeth.