10/7/2023 0 Comments NAVAL ARMADA on the way to SYRIA![]() ![]() He claimed the credit for bringing Elizabeth back to court and arranging a reconciliation with her half-sister (according to one account he observed the meeting between them from hiding). Neither has left any personal recollections of the meeting, but from the wariness with which they treated each other thereafter no great rapport seems to have been established.īut Philip did harbour a grievance. This occurred in May 1555 while Philip was king consort of England and when Elizabeth was brought to Hampton Court after her imprisonment at Woodstock. Quite unusually for reigning monarchs of that period, they actually met. Between them 'el rey prudente' (the prudent king) and the virgin queen dominated the second half of the sixteenth century. Philip II was born six years before Elizabeth I in 1527 and died five years before her in 1598. ![]()
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