Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

This is the weekly highlight reel of videos that I have put out on YouTube.

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And then what I've started doing is weekly highlight reels of some of the videos that have

gone out on YouTube that would be of interest to the podcast listeners as well. So thanks for

listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and coffee

and search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. So today we are talking about

the love life of Elizabeth I first, the men who were courting Elizabeth, the men who would

have liked to have been the king of England. So Elizabeth I'm the first and her love life. This is a

topic that gets covered quite a lot. I've actually

done other videos about Elizabeth and her suitors as well. But it's one of those subjects that never

gets old and it's always worth going back and revisiting it and looking for other spins you can

put on it. So we're going to talk a little bit about the men who were courting

Elizabeth today, the men who had hopes of being the future king of England, and the way Elizabeth

played them off each other. One interesting thing about Elizabeth, of course, maybe one of the most

interesting things about her is that she was the first woman to rule without a

husband by her side. Of course, Mary the first was the first queen regnant in England, but she got

married right away to Philip of Spain. So Elizabeth comes along and she did not get married and

she ruled for 45 years without a husband by her side, which was a choice that mystified the political world of her time.

But Elizabeth's decision to stay unmarried wasn't due to lack of offers, of course.

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