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Like her siblings Edward VI and Mary I, Elizabeth I never left England to visit other realms in the British Isles and the European continent during her reign. This was in marked contrast to her father, Henry VIII, and nearly all his predecessors going back to the Norman Conquest, and many of her contemporaries, the princes of other European states. Elizabeth did routinely show herself to the citizens of London and her subjects in the Thames valley and, occasionally, in the Midlands and East Anglia during her summer progresses. But her subjects in northern England and Wales, Ireland, the people who populated the royal courts of European states, an undetermined number of Muslims, and select groups of peoples in the Americas only knew Elizabeth through secondhand sources. As such, they obtained knowledge of the queen through the mediation of various forms of representation, such as the reports of ambassadors, literary and iconographic depictions, and letters sent directly from the queen herself to the princes of western Europe, Russia, and various states in the Islamic world.
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Beem, C., Levin, C. (2011). Why Elizabeth Never Left England. In: Beem, C. (eds) The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118553_1
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