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    Anne Boleyn

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    time. At first she seemed rebellious. This characteristic emerged when Anne found out that King Henry wanted to marry her. Over time this rebellion slowly disappeared. Soon after Anne became completely consumed with the becoming the Queen of England. Alas‚ her second trait shows: lust for power. Last is love. Love is the emotion that plays the most important role in the life of Anne Boleyn. Anne has many passions for many things in the course of her life. Her first love was with the court

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    manners and great intelligence‚ she was someone that wasn’t any regular Hollywood star. Hepburn was born in Belgium on May 4‚ 1929. Her father was a British banker and her mother was a Dutch baroness. Audrey grew up going to private schools in England and the Netherlands. Her parents divorced when she was young. She was vacationing with her mother in Arnhem‚ Holland‚ when WW II broke out. She spent the

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    Sir Thomas Wyatt was the English lyrical poet of the 16th-century accredited with the introduction of the famous sonnet into the English language. He was born at the Allington Castle‚ which was situated near Maidstone in Kent – although his family was formerly from the city of Yorkshire. Anne Skinner‚ his mother and Henry Wyatt‚ his father‚ had been one of the Privy Councillors of Henry VII‚ and continued to be a trusted as well as reliable counselor while Henry VIII came to the power in the year

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    The Tudor dynasty began in 1484 when the war of the roses had ended‚ Richard III Killed at the battle of Bosworth by a young Henry Tudor who made a political alliance to marry Elizabeth of York. This was a political manoeuvre to secure the land. During the history of the Tudor dynasty‚ Elizabeth of York is a hugely influential figure in the early modern period not just because of her name and title but because of her own hereditary claim to the throne and her own status within society. Elizabeth

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    Richard Branson

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    Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson or known as Sir Richard Branson is well known as the founder of Virgin Group. He was born on July 18th 1950 in Surrey‚ England and he is the eldest son of Edward James Branson and Eve Huntley Branson‚ his father worked as a lawyer and his grandfather‚ Sir George Arthur Harwin Branson was a judge of the High Court of Justice. Until the age of thirteen‚ Sir Richard Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School and He moved and studied at one of a boarding school‚ which

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    Thomas Wolsey

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    Sarah Barker Wolsey’s Fall Thomas Wolsey fell from his extreme height of power in 1529‚ but how? Wolsey had famously grown from a butchers son to one of the most powerful people in England at that time so what brought him to be accused of treason. Henry VIII trusted Wolsey as his right hand man for a long time and it has been argued that he saw him as his personal trust worthy servant but there have also been different opinions stating

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    a fun time...but trust me it’s not. I have to control the lord’s and make sure they do their job. I know you sympathise with me dear Sorn‚ for you’re a queen like me.. Well‚ at least all isn’t that bad. I actually spend lots of my time focusing on the bible‚ and the Roman Catholic church. This weekend‚ I was walking to the local monastery to see what the monks were working on‚ and you won’t believe what I witnessed! I was happily trotting on the street when I see my good friend Vernon holding a dirty

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    pursuit of her troubles Wyatt so much to the point that he seems to have had enough‚ and seeing that many other suitors seem ahead of him in the chase‚ mainly King Henry VIII‚ he decides to give up: “But as for me‚ allas! I may no more. The vain travail hath worried me so sore‚ I am of them that furthest come behind.” and

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    parliamentary privilege) and policies was an attempt by Parliament to make themselves a necessary commodity. This is corroborated by Source 13‚ ‘If accept that kings have the power of imposing new and higher duties and the right to do this is confirmed‚ I do not see and likelihood of future parliaments.’ Parliament’s use of subsidies to control the monarch is further confirmed in Source 12‚ ‘they forced the queen to concede the substance of their demands’. However‚ far from making themselves indispensable

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    As the threat of invasion from the Spanish Armada still hung‚ Queen Elizabeth I attempted to rally her troops in the town of Tilbury. The Queen dispelled opposition of her position and worries about her lack of capabilities as she delivered her Tilbury Speech on August 9th‚ 1588. Through her use of diction‚ imagery‚ and sentence structure the Queen successfully rallies her troops to confront the encroaching enemy. The Queen uses diction to praise and motivate her people using words like‚ "faithful"

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