On This Day In History . 17 November 1558 . Queen Elizabeth I's accession . . 👑 Elizabeth became queen at the age of 25, & declared her intentions to her Council & other peers who had come to Hatfield to swear allegiance. The speech contains the first record of her adoption of the medieval political theology of the sovereign's "two bodies": the body natural & the body politic: . 'My lords, the law of nature moves me to sorrow for my sister; the burden that is fallen upon me makes me amazed, & yet, considering I am God's creature, ordained to obey His appointment, I will thereto yield, desiring from the bottom of my heart that I may have assistance of His grace to be the minister of His heavenly will in this office now committed to me. & as I am but one body naturally considered, though by His permission a body politic to govern, so shall I desire you all ... to be assistant to me, that I with my ruling & you with your service may make a good account to Almighty God & leave some comfort to our posterity on earth. I mean to direct all my actions by good advice & counsel'. . 👑 As her triumphal progress wound through the city on the eve of the coronation ceremony, she was welcomed wholeheartedly by the citizens & greeted by orations & pageants, most with a strong Protestant flavour. Elizabeth's open & gracious responses endeared her to the spectators, who were "wonderfully ravished". . 👑 The following day, 15 January 1559, Elizabeth was crowned & anointed by Owen Oglethorpe, the Catholic bishop of Carlisle, in Westminster Abbey. She was then presented for the people's acceptance, amidst a deafening noise of organs, fifes, trumpets, drums, & bells. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1558 #D17Nov #ElizabethI #QueenofEngland #ElizabethIofEngland #HouseofTudor #Hatfieldhouse #Monarch #Queen #Tudor #Tudors #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #historyfacts #historic #TheTudors #OnThisDay #virginqueen #EnglishHistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4-h_-kgxVF/?igshid=6uqprcqlgyad


















