Book review 2-8 Kings and Queens of Britain.

In Britain, the most important person is king and queen. Today, Queen ElizabethⅡ is the most important person. Every year, she opens parliament and she is head of the Church of England. But she doesn’t work parliament or church nether. The king and queen of England have many histories.

In AD 43, roman emperor Claudius came to Britain to take the country from the British kings and queens. In England, The young queen called Boudicca tried to stop the invasion of Romans. They fight so much. After all, she lost and died, however she became the first famous British Queen.

The year 1066 is the famous for English people. In that year, three people came to England to fight, because they want to be a king. After the fight, Harold Godwinsson became a king at that time. But later that day, William and his soldiers killed Harold and he became a king WilliamⅠ. William was a strong king, and people remember him because him because his children and grand children were king of England for 2 hundred years.

In 1491, King Henry was born and married with his first wife Catherine in 1509. He wanted have a son, however he couldn’t. So he remarried Ann Boleyn. Because she couldn’t give a birth a son, she was killed by Henry. After all he married six women. He could have only one son. He died in 1547, and because of him, the King and Queen of England is always the Head if the Church of England, too. And Ann’s daughter, Elizabeth was one of the most famous women in England.

The young Elizabeth was so poor and had a very difficult time. Her sister Mary was a queen, and Elizabeth was in prison. Many people wanted to kill her because she was Ann’s child. After Mary died in 1558, she became a Queen of England for 45 years. She didn’t have her husband and maintained her beliefs that she is single. However it is known that she had many steadies at that time. And more, the age of under Elizabeth rule, it is said that “The Golden Age”. It was a strong, happy for England. Elizabeth made some explorers sailed to America, and opened the world widely. Elizabeth was ready for being assassinated by Scottish Queen Mary, but Mary was killed by her.
And time past away and England became bigger country. And the industrial revolution, the England was the center of the world.

Today, the Queen is ElizabethⅡ. She ascended the Queen in 1952, then, she was 25 years old. She neither works hard at parliament nor Church. But she talks with prime minister and churchmen about very important things. She helps them and gives some advises. The King and Queen is indispensable person and irreplaceable. They are what is called “The Symbol” of its country. (488 words)