![]() ![]() She was clever, but cunning and deceitful, and inherited much of her father's violent temper. She was well educated, but a roundabout writer, and rather a hard swearer and coarse talker. She was not the beautiful creature her courtiers made out but she was well enough, and no doubt looked all the better for coming after the dark and gloomy Mary. Her countenance was strongly marked, but on the whole, commanding and dignified her hair was red, and her nose something too long and sharp for a woman's. Queen Elizabeth was five and twenty years of age when she rode through the streets of London, from the Tower to Westminster Abbey, to be crowned. The nation seemed to wake from a horrible dream and Heaven, so long hidden by the smoke of the fires that roasted men and women to death, appeared to brighten once more. Weary of the barbarities of Mary's reign, the people looked with hope and gladness to the new Sovereign. There was great rejoicing all over the land when the Lords of the Council went down to Hatfield, to hail the Princess Elizabeth as the new Queen of England. ![]()
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