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supported by history. C. The Proposing Affairs Her careful, incredulous and cautious personality was not only expressed in the politics, but also in her marriage. When she considered her marriage, she put the political element in the first place. So, we can say she was a rare woman. We have heard a lot of examples about the princesses’ opposing the political marriage. But Elizabeth I took the political interests as the chip of her marriage. At that time, the English ministers also hoped their queen marry quickly so that a successor could be born. But for Elizabeth, how to choose a husband was a complicated problem. From the European situation at that time, as Britain monarch, whoever she married to, it also means forming alliance with that country. Just as Churchill said, “The marriage of monarch can be a peaceful link with her neighbor, and also a guarantee to win a war”. In terms of the European situation, avoiding the alliance with any countries is the interests of Britain. So Elizabeth had to keep the balance among the big countries, weaken the two biggest countries by the utilization of contradictions, and then sought for the development of itself. When Elizabeth came into power, the first person proposing to her was her brother-in-law, the Spanish king Philip Ⅱ. At that time, Philip was contending with France. He tried his best to keep the alliance between Spain and Britain that formed in the Mary time. So after his former wife died, he wanted to marry Elizabeth. But being aligned with Spain to fight France publicly was not in accordance with the interests of Britain. What Britain needed at that time was sowing dissension between France and Spain and prompting them to fight with each other. So Britain would be away from them and developed its strength, especially the sea power. When the chance came, it could defend Span and then became the maritime overlord. Elizabeth used her marriage affair to help this policy. She refused the marriage respectably in manner of her outstanding diplomacy. Then she favored the dependency of Spain actively— Netherlands Revolution, to strike and weaken Spain. The sea power of Spain was the most threat for Britain, so the war between Britain and Spain was inevitable. But Elizabeth used France to hamper Spain on purpose and tried her best to postpone the war until Britain got enough strength. When French royal family got the news about the refusal of marriage by Elizabeth, they proposed to her one by one. Elizabeth was worth the title—a tricky diplomat and shrewd ruler. As a woman, she loved beauty and was good at dressing. She was also an attractive woman in the ball. She needed love and was eager to bring up children, but she preferred throne. She was so characteristic that she did not want to share the throne with others, let alone being inferior to others. Besides that, if she married a French who believed in Catholicism, she must alienate Britain people who believed in Protestantism inevitably. So she did not intend to be connected with France by marriage at the beginning. But she wanted to utilize France to hamper Spain. So she did not refuse the marriage directly, but feigned the enthusiasm of being glad to talk about her marriage. She always invited the French little prince to Britain palace and did her best to attract him. She was playing a political trick on Philip Ⅱ. Because what she did was to break the possibility of the alliance between France and Spain. Because of the successful pol