![]() ![]() Playing bowlingĮnglish children are told that the sea lion Sir Francis Drake was bowling with Elizabeth I at Plymouth when the Armada was first spotted. In her documentary, he shows that people believe what they want to believe, that the victors write history as they please, and that the real failure was that of the Invincible English or Contraarmada, that is, the invasion fleet sent by Isabel I against Felipe II in the spring of 1589, in the framework of the operations of the Anglo-Spanish war (1585-1604). ![]() According to Lucy Worsley, it is “full of exaggerations, distortions, and even gigantic lies …, fake news”. The historian, curator of the British Royal palaces, and presenter Lucy Worsley (above in the video), in this BBC documentary called Royal History’s Biggest Fibs, amends the inaccuracies in the official version of British historiography. The naval victory of England made Sir Francis Drake and especially Elizabeth I herself, the Virgin Queen, into icons. ![]() The defeat of the Great Spanish Armada (1588), which the English always mockingly refer to as the Invincible Armada, marks the culmination of the achievements of Elizabeth I of England and the founding moment in British history. ![]()
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