Queen Elizabeth I knew she needed to be taken seriously as a woman on the throne, but to do so in 16th-century England was no easy task. She knew that her subjects would have preferred a male ...

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But for the portrait marking her record-breaking 70 years on the throne, the Queen, who is now a grandmother of eight and a great-grandmother of 12, opted for a more low-key look. Queen Elizabeth ...

click image for close-up When Elizabeth Freeman was nearly 70 years old, Susan Ridley Sedgewick painted a miniature portrait of her in watercolor on ivory. Sedgewick was the young wife of Theodore ...