I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that... if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My lord, the crown which I have borne so long has given enough of vanity in my time. I beseech you not to augment it in this hour ...when I am so near my death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the m...emorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, "Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »