Queen Elizabeth's relationship with the Papacy was not a warm one to say the least.
After her father Henry VIII married her mother Anne Boleyn, Pope Clement VII threatened to excommunicate him if he didn't go back to his first wife, Katherine of Aragon. Later, Pope Paul III had the sentenced carried out.
In 1570, Elizabeth too was excommunicated by Pope Pius V for her 'heretical' Protestantism.
Shown here is an anti-Papal Dutch print (by Pieter van de Heyden) of Elizabeth's enmity with the Vatican. The Queen, depicted as a naked Classical goddess of Antiquity, vanquishes the Pope and his 'brood' with the help of Truth and Time.
(from The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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