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It was all part of the conflict for control of England started by her father King Henry VIII; the Catholics wanted England to be a Catholic Country, and the Anglicans did not want the country to be Catholic. As an Anglican, Elizabeth was attempting to destroy the Catholic power and influence in England; has she not done so it is likely she would have been deposed; and probably would have been executed herself.

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