Why did Elizabeth I like sir francis drake so much?
Sir Francis Drake had come up through the ranks from ordinary citizen to be knighted by the Queen. Queen Elizabeth I believed that every citizen should be able to share in and help create the nation’s wealth. She also supported the buccaneering [piracy] of such as Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh etc. Indeed the very enterprise of Empire building got started during the reign of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I also built London’s very first stockexchange – still there, the Royal Exchange London – right opp the Bank of England. Royal Exchange London images http://images.google.com/images?q=royal%… Like Queen Elizabeth I, Francis Drake was an English Puritan – his father had been a Puritan Preacher. http:/
