Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.

Elizabeth I was expert at what we now call public relations, and she was careful to control the distribution of images of herself. Katherine Coombes explains how the 'Virgin Queen' used portrait ...

One of the three Armada portraits of Queen Elizabeth I Woburn Abbey Collection After weeks of bitter conflict in summer 1588, England vanquished a tremendous fleet of 130 Spanish ships known as ...

Few images are as well known as the Armada painting, which shows Queen Elizabeth I basking in the aftermath of the greatest military success of her long reign, the defeat of a Spanish Armada.