Such as Russia changed during the reign of Peter I, Britain changed during the reign of Elizabeth I. The Queen was a brilliant orator, a poet, a writer. During the reign of Elizabeth I there was truly "golden age" of English history. Elizabeth was a big problem around the patriarchal world where a woman's place was strictly limited and pre-agreed. She developed her own style of government of the Virgin Queen. In the first place she wanted to be perceived as a statesman, not as a woman. During the reign of Elizabeth I England became great colonial empire. But before that there were the fight with her half sister, imprisonment in the Tower, exile, opposition to Catholicism, and just saving her own life.