Ian Mortimer: Take almost any painting from Elizabethan England and what do you see? Royal courtiers dressed in silk and velvet magnificent jewels and ostentatious ruffs extravagant feasts and ...

Two paintings by the Portuguese painter Paula ... The likeness of Raleigh, one of the most famous explorers in Elizabethan ...

Elizabeth I was a Tudor queen who ruled England from 1558 - 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII, and the final Tudor monarch. Her reign has often been described as a ‘Golden Age’ of ...