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Question: What was the greatest threat to Queen ELizabeth I's rule!?
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I would say the climate of the times she lived in!. England was a not very powerful nation, yet the largest of the time with a Protestant sovereign!.

She had the Pope declaring that anyone who murdered her, not only didn't sin, but gained merit in the eyes of God!.

She had her ex-brother-in-law, King of the wealthiest nation on Earth "at the time, sworn to the cause of defending the Roman Catholic faith in the face of the Protestant heresy!.

And then into the mix, we have the recently widowed Dauphine of France, Elizabeth's cousin, forced to travel around England, rather than through it, on her way to Edinburgh, who then is again widowed, quite possibly raped, and forced to surrender her infant son into the hands of her enemies, escapes to England where she is imprisoned, to keep her from inspiring revolt by Catholics!. The Queen of Scots then allows herself to be involved with this insane plot to overthrow Elizabeth, and ends up being executed!. The execution, once it had taken place, gives Philip of Spain the excuse he needed to raise an army to avenge this Catholic martyr and destroy the Protestant "whore"!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

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