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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26743352, member: 86815&quot;]This is what Elizabeth would have said to you [USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Ye speak of a &#039;personality&#039; as if I were a common milkmaid and not a Prince set upon a throne by God&#039;s own hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Spanish gold? It was merely a tithe collected from those who sought to breach my realm—consider it a maritime tax for their insolence. I have no desire to make windows into men&#039;s souls, but those who would plant a dagger in my back under the guise of Rome shall find my justice swifter than their prayers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am but a weak and feeble woman, it is true, but I have the heart and stomach of a King—and a King does not offer apologies for securing her kingdom.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>To be fair, &#039;plundering Spanish ships&#039; was basically the 16th-century version of a high-growth investment strategy.</p><p>She did dodge 30 assassination attempts and of course the Spanish Armada was a religious crusade and Philip II was a devout Catholic who wanted to restore Catholicism in England. The Pope also put a price on her head which didn&#039;t help.</p><p>For a 16th Century ruler she was about par for the course. Go back a couple of hundred years and we were cutting off the hands and castrating moneyers who made bad coins. She debased the coinage and then replaced it with good coins without going through the castration route. The great recoinage reduced the value of coins by 25% to be replaced with the new coins and effectively she charged the public for the recoinage with the 25% deduction in value.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not a monarchist so tend to always take the low view of them. I&#039;m not too fussed on politicians either but we won&#039;t go there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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