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Prince William Duke of Gloucestor was a descendant of Queen Anne of Great Britain.
In 1699, the newly established Colonial Assembly in Williamsburg, Virginia deemed that the Duke of Gloucestor Street to be named in William Duke’s honor.
Queen Elizabeth charted the an expedition to establish the Colony of Virginia after Sir Humphrey Gilbert wrote, “A Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Pasage to Cataia”. Sir Humphrey Gilbert would become the first colonial governor of the commonwealth of Virginia.
The mother of Queen Elizabeth the First was beheaded when the queen was two years of age. After the turmoil her father caused after beheading multiple queens for failing to produce male heirs, the future queen survived the reign of her half brother, as well as her time imprisoned in a tower during the reign of Queen Mary I.
At the age of 25, Queen Elizabeth the First began to rule at a time of the golden age. The Spanish Armada was defeated, Shakespearean literature was produced and attempts to create the Newfoundland and the Roanoke settlements were made during her reign. While Sir Humphrey Gilbert failed to make Newfoundland a permanent settlement, it was the first attempt at establishing the Colony of the Virginia.
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