“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.

Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/

*date converted from OS calendar

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