Mine too! I've always adored Gloriana. What an amazing story she lived . . . and for a royal family, you gotta admit the Tudors were some crazy-ass rednecks.
I remember my Moment of Historical Clarity in 1984, when I made the (astonishingly obvious) connection that Anne Boleyn was Elizabeth's mother, and Bloody Mary was her half-sister. I felt SO smart for having figured it out . . . and later, felt SO stupid for not reading that genealogical chart that's in EVERY SINGLE BOOK I OWN.
My mother and I had one thing in common,
we ADORED British history, especially the monarches from
pre-Norman Invasion (god bless the long bow) right up to Prince William being a cutie patootie.
There was a saying that Elizabeth was the greatest King England ever had. ;)