Education - Queens Court

This activity looks at Elizabethan Court Life through the eyes of two courtiers - Christopher Hatton and Alice Hilliard, the wife of Nicholas Hilliard.

Topics that can be covered are:

• Sumptuary laws - what people were allowed to wear in different ranks of society
• Trade and Piracy
• What caused the defeat of the Spanish Armada
• Entertainment at Court
• Elizabethan progress - how the court travelled