"Favorite British Monarch (Final Round)" Topic

Good Queen Bess, who forbade her ambassadors receive foreign decorations because "my dogs where MY collars" and in the words of the Ottoman Emperor "the rule of half an island who defies the ruler of half the world." Others were better generals, ruled greater empires or were well-beloved constitutional monarchs. But when you country's back is to the wall, it's the spirit of Elizabeth I you want.