Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Королевы Великобритании (6 класс)

second wife, who was executed two-and-a-half years after Elizabeth's birth.

Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate.

1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Roman Catholic Mary

Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant rebels.
In 1558 upon Mary's death, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule by good counsel.

the throne.

Although Elizabeth was welcomed as queen in England, the country was still in a state of anxiety over the perceived Catholic threat at home and overseas, as well as the choice of whom she would marry.

would marry and the question arose to whom. Although she received many offers for her hand, she never married and was childless; the reasons for this are not clear.

England's defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 associated Elizabeth with one of the greatest military victories in English history.

Elizabeth's foreign policy was largely defensive.

1588 brought new difficulties for Elizabeth that lasted until the end of her reign. The conflicts with Spain and in Ireland dragged on, and the economy was hit by poor harvests and the cost of war. Prices rose and the standard of living fell.

the autumn of 1602, when a series of deaths among her friends plunged her into a severe depression.

DEATH

In March, Elizabeth fell sick and remained in a "settled and unremovable melancholy", and sat motionless on a cushion for hours on end
Elizabeth was interred in Westminster Abbey, in a tomb shared with her half-sister, Mary I.

period is famous for English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

Strathearn, the fourth son of King George III. Both the Duke and the King died in 1820, and Victoria was raised under close supervision by her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children.

the four eldest sons of George III

Victoria later described her childhood as "rather melancholy".
Her mother was extremely protective, and Victoria was raised largely isolated from other children under the so-called "Kensington System", an elaborate set of rules and protocols devised by the Duchess.

was avoided.
Less than a month later, on 20 June 1837, William IV died at the age of 71, and Victoria became Queen of the United Kingdom.
In her diary she wrote, "I was awoke at 6 o'clock by Mamma, who told me the Archbishop of Canterbury was here and wished to see me. I got out of bed and went into my sitting-room and saw them.
Lord Conyngham then acquainted me that my poor Uncle, the King, was no more, and had expired at 12 minutes past 2 this morning, and consequently that I am Queen.

in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace, London.

them failed.
She had 9 children.
After her husband’s death, she started avoiding the public.
Her first grandchild became the last German Emperor.

Victoria was the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in world history until her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II surpassed her on 9 September 2015.
She died on Tuesday 22 January 1901, at half past six in the evening, at the age of 81.[

monarchy in Britain continued. Reforms of the voting system increased the power of the House of Commons at the expense of the House of Lords and the monarch.

In 1867, Walter Bagehot wrote that the monarch only retained "the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, and the right to warn".
As Victoria's monarchy became more symbolic than political, it placed a strong emphasis on morality and family values, in contrast to the financial and personal scandals that had been associated with previous monarches.