Would it be common knowledge in Elizabethan times that Denmark had an elective monarchy?
in all honesty the people of Elizabethan England would have had no idea where Denmark was, let alone how its system of government operated, the vast majority of the people of England could not read or write, there was no newspapers most of the working class people didn’t even have any idea how their own government worked mainly for the simple reason they had no say in how it was run or by whom. (the members of Parliament were made up of the Lords of the land, they were not voted in, and even if there was a vote only about 6% of the population would have qualified to vote, i.
