After the death of Elizabeth her visit to Charlecote was marked by affixing the Tudor Royal Coat of Arms to the front of the porch . Have a look at this on your way out. It is interesting because it does not show a Lion and a Unicorn but a Welsh Dragon.
This is because England and Wales had become unified in 1536 (when Elizabeth was only 3 and Anne Boleyn was executed). Today we have the Unicorn, which represents the unification of Scotland and England in 1603 just after the death of Elizabeth when James 1st became king.

Elizabeth slept in the Great Bed chamber at the end of the North wing on the ground floor. Mary Elizabeth later knocked the inner wall out to create the present Drawing room.

Did Elizabeth like Shakespeare’s work?
Both QE1 and King James 1 gave patronage to Shakespeare as both loved Drama. He was enrolled as an actor and Servant to the Queen. Queen Elizabeth was well read and educated. She studied ancient Classical texts and actually translated the Tragedies of Euripides “for her own amusement” State papers show that Shakespeare performed in a play before Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Palace at Greenwich in 1594 but there is no record of which play or if it was one of his. But in 1597 Love’s Labours Lost was played before the Queen in the Christmas holidays and the following year the 1st and 2nd parts of Henry IV were performed. Elizabeth declared that the part of Falstaff greatly amused her so Shakespeare produced the Merry Wives of Windsor to the Queen’s great satisfaction.
Shakespeare played several times at Whitehall and Richmond Palace between 1600 and 1602.


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