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Elizabeth I of England

Dates: September 7, 1533 - March 24, 1603

Daughter of King Henry VIII of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England on the death of her sister Mary. She reigned from 1558-1603.

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