Elizabeth I

The "Virgin Queen," who wedded herself to the island of England and outmaneuvered the navies of the world with a "heart of a king." She was the "Glorious Enigma," a sovereign who survived by her wits and her refusal to be defined by any man. She represents the "Resilient Isolation"—the power that comes from standing alone and turning a small kingdom into the mistress of the oceans. She is the ruff collar and the Tilbury roar, the one who proved that a Queen’s survival is her greatest poem.