Historian Christopher Haigh explains: “On her throne, Elizabeth was the Virgin Queen; towards the Church she was a mother, with her nobles she was an aunt, to her councillors a nagging wife, and to her courtiers a seductress. ” Her secret was to reassure her people constantly of her special love for them.
ფაქტია, ასეთი „შუალედური გზა“, დიდად არც კათოლიკეებს ეამათ და არც მკაცრ პროტესტანტებს, იგივე პურიტანებს.