How Successfully did Elizabeth 1st Tackle the Problems of her Reign?
Elizabeth 1st faced many problems. Most of which were inter-linked. When she was considering how to solve one, she had to consider the others linked to it. My essay is about how she tackled some of them. Elizabeth needed an heir. For this success would mean marrying someone who everybody is happy with and to produce an heir. The difficult bit was keeping everybody happy. Elizabeth wanted her husband to be good looking and someone she loved but Burghley, her advisor didnt care whether he was handsome or not or about his personality. They both wanted him to be English and Protestant though. Robert Dudley was both but his father was a traitor so Burghley didnt want the Queen to marry him. If she married an Englishman though the other Lords might get jealous but a foreign suitor would drag the English into their wars. There wasnt a perfect husband so Elizabeth never married. In some ways she was very successful: she didnt have a man ruling over her and she controlled powerful men by flirti
