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icy of the balance among European countries practiced by Elizabeth I, Britain earned a peaceful period for 30 years. When Spanish armada invaded, the strength of Britain was not the same as it had been. It defeated Spanish Armada and became the maritime overlord. The factors are various, but not without the relation with the marriage of Elizabeth. Besides Spain and France, Switzerland king, Austria duck Charlie and Scottish viscount also proposed a marriage to Elizabeth. She tricked them like joining in the fun on occasion. Among the noble suitors, there are many handsome men, but for the interests of nation, the queen did not marry them at last. Among the factors, politics is one of them, the other is her personal love. Actually, the queen loved a pretty man named Robert. They loved each other for many years. At last, Robert realized although the queen showed her love in front of him, her first love was the throne. She did not intend to marry him. Then he married another girl, making the queen live alone. Though Elizabeth was very sad and angry with Robert, she did not intend to marry him at all. She wanted to be a complete queen, so she was willing to be a complete maid. After Robert, she recruited many other pretty men around her. She still wasted her time, but years elapsed fast, the queen was from the middle age to declining years, her love misery made her extremely distrustful and eccentric. She did not contact with others any more. She was dispirited and not as enlightened as before on politics, but arbitrary and dogmatic. The queen came to the end in solitude at last. When she crept into death, the sincere love in her inner heart always broke out. She always burst into tears; her unique victory just took her into a deeper solitude and destruction. Long life became a suffering. The noble queen was deprived of the only thing that was worth owing in this world. And it was deprived and deserted by her, behind the flourish, it was just dust. While the true love in her inner heart should be the soul that she wanted to approach. She was becoming more and more feeble, and then on March 24th, 1603 Elizabeth was dead as an old maid. Then English Tudor dynasty ended. For the throne, she abandoned love, but after her death, the throne dropped on the son of her political enemy. This result may be beyond her imagining. What she risked her life maintaining belonged to others at last? If she predicted this result, maybe she would choose the love but not the throne. I wonder whether she regrets about her choice when she is dying. But if she chose love not the throne before, maybe the history of Britain would change. We can conclude the life of Elizabeth I with this phrase “as a monarch, she was very great; but as a woman, she was a loser.” For this behavior, Strachey, L said: “Maybe it is just the tragedy of Elizabeth. At first, she was a politician; then she was a woman. Her love was penetrated with so much impurity that she could not be lingering thoroughly.” D. The Comment on ElizabethⅠ’s Love and Marriage In terms of the love and marriage of Elizabeth I, we cannot assert whether she was right or wrong. Because she was a monarch, not a common person. Her behavior and action must serve for and be suitable for the interests of her nation. The History Teaching made a comment like this: “In the early modern times, the British queen Elizabeth’s marriage diplomatic policy has its unique feature. She used her marriage as a chip in the whole Euro