ASPECTS OF BRITISH HISTORY
The Empire gave the British a feeling of their own importance which was
difficult to forget when Britain lost its power in the twentieth century.
Notes
1. Henry VIII’s daughter Elizabeth I inherited the title of the queen of England
and Ireland.
2. The English considered that Wales had become part of England for all
practical purposes. If the Welsh wanted a prince, they could have one. At a public
ceremony at Caernarvon [kə'nα:vən] (the seat of the native princes of Wales until the
9th century) in 1301 Edward I made his own baby son the first English Prince of
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Wales. From that time the eldest son of the ruling king or queen has usually been
made Prince of Wales.
3. The first attempts to establish English settlements in America were made by
Humphrey Gilbert in Newfoundland in 1583 and by Walter Raleigh in 1585 in
Virginia, an area named by him after the virgin, or unmarried queen Elizabeth.
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