The Tudors Dynasty podcast.

Welcome to part two of the memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth.

Part one concluded with the birth of Princess Elizabeth,

but with part two, we will jump forward in time to Elizabeth's early reign,

and what the early 19th century sentiment was at the time regarding it.

I hope you enjoy.

Never, perhaps, was the accession of any prince,

the subject of such keen and lively interest to a whole people as that of Elizabeth.

Both in the religious establishments and political relations of the country, the most important

changes were anticipated, changes in which the humblest individual found himself concerned,

and to which a vast majority of the

nation looked forward with hope and joy. The sex, the youth, the accomplishments, the graces,

the past misfortunes of the princess, all served to heighten the interest with which she was beheld.

The age of chivalry had not yet expired, and in spite of the late unfortunate experience of a

female reign, the romantic image of a maiden queen dazzled all eyes, subdued all hearts,

inflamed the imaginations of the brave and courtly youth with visions of love and glory,

exulted into a passionate homage, the principle of loyalty, and urged adulation to the very brink of idolatry.

The fulsome compliments on her beauty, which Elizabeth, almost to the

latest period of her life, not only permitted but required and delighted in, have been adverted to

by all the writers who have made her reign in characters their theme. And those of the number whom

admiration and pity of the fair Queen of Scots

have rendered hostile to her memory have taken a malicious pleasure in exaggerating the

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