I personally like it WAY more than the typical Elizabeth. [188] Her love of sweets and fear of dentists contributed to severe tooth decay and loss to such an extent that foreign ambassadors had a hard time understanding her speech. [184] The first signs of a new literary movement had appeared at the end of the second decade of Elizabeth's reign, with John Lyly's Euphues and Edmund Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender in 1578. This spelling of the classic name is found in France, Germany, Greece, and other cultures, and is worn by such notables as Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth Shue, Elisabeth Moss, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. [236] Priding herself on being "mere English",[237] Elizabeth trusted in God, honest advice, and the love of her subjects for the success of her rule. In 1957, after state visits to various European nations, she and the duke visited Canada and the United States. Elizabeth sent a new ambassador, Dr. Giles Fletcher, to demand from the regent Boris Godunov that he convince the Tsar to reconsider. [77] For several years she also seriously negotiated to marry Philip's cousin Archduke Charles of Austria. Since Elizabeth would never name her successor, Cecil was obliged to proceed in secret. [189] André Hurault de Maisse, Ambassador Extraordinary from Henry IV of France, reported an audience with the queen, during which he noticed, "her teeth are very yellow and unequal ... and on the left side less than on the right. Read our article on the root group אלה for a look at the close relationship between the words אל (El), and the verb אלה , meaning to swear. [20] At the end of her life, Elizabeth was also believed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to the languages mentioned above. Beginning in November 1953 the queen and the duke of Edinburgh made a six-month round-the-world tour of the Commonwealth, which included the first visit to Australia and New Zealand by a reigning British monarch. Therefore, Queen Elizabeth's last name is Windsor. In his absence, a Catholic League army almost destroyed the remains of his army at Craon, north-west France, in May 1591. [160] In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had "much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols", and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire. Nevertheless, Elizabeth was forced to accept the title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England rather than the more contentious title of Supreme Head, which many thought unacceptable for a woman to bear. The new Act of Supremacy became law on 8 May 1559. After Elizabeth's own death, a note from him was found among her most personal belongings, marked "his last letter" in her handwriting.