Wow, I got it! I wasn't sure when I tried to remember about her specifically - I was only thinking some time in the 16th or 17th centuries. A few years ago I went on a major kick for books - fact or fiction - about European monarchs of that period. It included a biography of Catherine of Aragon, a fictional autobiography of Henry VIII, and The Queen's Fool. and... that didn't help me a whole lot with years :P
I was drawing a blank until I remembered that Catherine of Aragon was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and of course my American education has left me with the year 1492 to associate with them. So I knew Elizabeth must have taken the throne some time in the 16th century. The decade was a lucky estimate based on a vague memory from the books that Henry and Catherine were married in the first decade of the 16th century.
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Date: November 28th, 2009 06:28 am (UTC)From:I was drawing a blank until I remembered that Catherine of Aragon was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, and of course my American education has left me with the year 1492 to associate with them. So I knew Elizabeth must have taken the throne some time in the 16th century. The decade was a lucky estimate based on a vague memory from the books that Henry and Catherine were married in the first decade of the 16th century.