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She resisted the (politically-motivated) wooings of Philip II, also turned a blind eye to what the Spanish considered piracy by English ships against their galleons returning laden with plunder from Latin America. As relations between the two nations deteriorated, not helped by (a) the execution of Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots, and (b) 'the singeing of the King of Spain's beard', an English naval attack on the Spanish fleet harboured at Cadiz (a kind of 'Pearl Harbour', seen from the Spanish point of view, it suddenly occurs to me; though the Spanish Armada was planning to attack England), essentially, a Catholic/Protestant conflict, and having been rebuffed by her, the Spanish Catholic monarch could only see the Protestant English Queen as a threat to 'the true faith'.

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