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Though Elizabeth followed a largely defensive foreign policy, her reign raised England's status abroad.
" She is only a woman, only mistress of half an island ," marvelled Pope Sixtus V, " and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all ".
Under Elizabeth, the nation gained a new self-confidence and sense of sovereignty, as Christendom fragmented.
Elizabeth was the first Tudor to recognise that a monarch ruled by popular consent.
She therefore always worked with parliament and advisers she could trust to tell her the truth — a style of government that her Stuart successors failed to follow.
Some historians have called her lucky ; she believed that God was protecting her.
Priding herself on being " mere English ", Elizabeth trusted in God, honest advice, and the love of her subjects for the success of her rule.
In a prayer, she offered thanks to God that:
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