The long-term suitor was widely believed to have been her one true love, and their romance was reimagined in the 1998 film Elizabeth starring Cate Blanchett as the Queen and Joseph Fiennes as Dudley.

We were saddened by the news on September 8, 2022, that Queen Elizabeth II had died at 96 ... joining the queue around 6:30 p.m. British people love to stand in line, and we laughed about it.

In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat. Elizabeth was briefly ...