LoginAs It Fell On A Holie Eve: Music for an Elizabethan Christmas
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Queen Elizabeth I of England spent much of her reign juggling to maintain her power and position and to keep England peaceful, prosperous and independent. Realizing that marriage to anyone at all would make the crown subject either to a foreign power or to a domestic faction, she skillfully warded off all suits, whether they were tendered as peace offerings or as passionate proposals (in some cases both happened at once). She had to balance, too, the antipathies between Catholics and Protestants in her realm: as the daughter of Henry VIII she was herself a Protestant and recoiled at the idea of bowing to papal authority, but she
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Manufacturer: MSR Classics
Release date: 1 October 2010
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0681585136522 UPC: 681585136522
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Release date: 1 October 2010
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0681585136522 UPC: 681585136522
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