By the turn of the sixteenth century, Elizabeth I had been on the throne for forty two years.
Throughout this time, she kept in contact with her subjects through a series of "Progresses". These were carefully planned journeys when she would travel through a particular region of her kingdom meeting the people. There were at least twenty five of these progresses during her reign.
The historian Zillah Dovey has made the first complete study of a progress. One in particular took place during the summer of 1578, when Elizabeth travelled from Greenwich to Norfolk. Helen Weinstein met her at the journey's end in Norwich. Zillah Dovey, An Elizabethan Progress, Sutton Publishing; ISBN: 0750921501, £10.99
