The Time of King James I
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James I became king of England and Scotland after Elizabeth I’s death.
After Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth I of England ruled from 1558 to 1603. She lived to be nearly seventy years old. That was a long life for someone in the 1500s—and for someone whom so many people had wanted to kill! The legend is that as she...