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Was Queen Elizabeth An Evil Queen

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Was Queen Elizabeth an evil queen who didn’t justify Catholics? No, Queen Elizabeth wasn’t an evil queen because she was kind to all of her subjects, as most Catholics say. Ever since Queen Elizabeth was young, she always strived to do her best since her father didn’t pay much attention to her and her mother was executed for not giving a male successor. With that small trait, she lead England for quite a long while. In 1586, Mary, Queen of Scotland was currently in house arrest. However, while Elizabeth was ruling England, many Catholics thought that Mary, Queen of Scotland was a better Queen that Elizabeth and kept saying that Mary should overthrow Elizabeth one day. They saw Elizabeth as a weak person while Mary was kind and strong, seeing how Mary tried her best with Scotland. But it wasn't just Catholics in England that thought Mary was a better suitor, most of the Catholics in Europe thought so as well. …show more content…

(See Appendix B). Babington was a young child when he first met Mary, Queen of Scotland, who was in house arrest at the time. When Babington was a young adult, he wanted to break Mary out of her prison, so he decided to create the Babington Plot. A problem Babington had was that Mary, Queen of Scotland, was prohibited from receiving or sending letters, so in order to bypass that, he snuck in letters in a brewer’s keg that would then be given to Mary to continue the planning of the plot. At this point of time, beer was an important part of a meal, so it didn’t seem

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