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7th February 2022

To celebrate seventy years since the Queen became Queen Elizabeth the Second (we are great royalists at Persephone Books), this week on the Post we celebrate the Tudors, inspired by the excellent exhibition at the Holburne in Bath. Today, naturally, here is Queen Elizabeth the First c. 1588 in a painting, normally at the National Portrait Gallery, by an unidentified artist, but what an artist!

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