{"id":814,"date":"2021-06-15T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=814"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T13:14:48","slug":"enrichment-something-to-listen-to-the-significance-of-elizabeths-death-in-1603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2021\/06\/15\/enrichment-something-to-listen-to-the-significance-of-elizabeths-death-in-1603\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment &#8211; something to listen to. The significance of Elizabeth&#8217;s death in 1603"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/b00n5nqr\">here<\/a>&nbsp;you will Melvin Bragg\u2019s Radio 4 \u201cIn Our Time\u201d programme on the significance of the death of Elizabeth I. It is well worth a listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Melvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth I and its immediate impact, as a foreign monarch became King in the face of plots and plague.By the spring of 1603, Elizabeth had been Queen for 44 years, and it was clear that she would leave no heir. Many feared that her death would spark insurrection, led perhaps by Puritans, perhaps by Catholics, possibly with the support of Spain. As it became clear that she was dying, Elizabeth\u2019s chief minister, Sir Robert Cecil, put into action his covert strategy to secure the succession of King James the Sixth of Scotland<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2021\/06\/armadaad3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"625\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2021\/06\/armadaad3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-815\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2021\/06\/armadaad3.jpg 840w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2021\/06\/armadaad3-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/files\/2021\/06\/armadaad3-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Keep smiling &#8211; it is almost the summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you click&nbsp;here&nbsp;you will Melvin Bragg\u2019s Radio 4 \u201cIn Our Time\u201d programme on the significance of the death of Elizabeth I. It is well worth a listen. \u201cMelvyn Bragg and guests John Guy, Clare Jackson and Helen Hackett discuss the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2021\/06\/15\/enrichment-something-to-listen-to-the-significance-of-elizabeths-death-in-1603\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G99s-d8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}