A bastard child whose mother was beheaded by her father, imprisoned in the Tower of London, and threatened by her half-sister “Bloody Mary,” young Elizabeth Tudor was unlikely to survive long enough to sit on the English Throne. But when she took the crown, she skillfully navigated the shoals of a divided Europe. Determined to avoid her father’s mistakes of plunging England into war with France, she found herself forced into wars in Spain, France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Ireland, the Atlantic Ocean, and the New World. Elizabeth’s management of generals and admirals would lead England into its golden age of exploration, science, literature and art: The Elizabethan Age.

Actor Nathalie Emmanuel joins father-daughter history team Jon & Emily Jordan to tell the story of Elizabeth I.

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