Image of The Tilbury Speech of Queen Elizabeth I, July 1588 (pen

The Tilbury Speech of Queen Elizabeth I, July 1588 (pen & ink on paper)

IMAGE number: BL3282593
Image title: The Tilbury Speech of Queen Elizabeth I, July 1588 (pen & ink on paper)
Location: British Library, London, UK
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Date: 1588 AD (C16th AD)

Image description: Source/Shelfmark: Harley 6798, f.87 [Whole folio] The Tilbury Speech, delivered by Queen Elizabeth I to her troops assembled at Tilbury Camp to defend the realm against the Spanish Armada, July 1588. This copy was probably produced by the Rev. Dr. Lionel Sharp, chaplain to the Earl of Leicester, the Queen's Lietuenant General. July 1588. Image taken from Letters and Papers on State Affairs Originally produced in England; 1588 In the speech, Elizabeth defends her strength as a female leader, saying "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too".
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
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