text: Look, everyone has his or her favorites, alongside their memorable quotes. Many Russians, for example, still love Stalin who affectionately said about his first wife, Kato Svanidze: "This creature softened my heart of stone," only to have her relatives executed in cold blood years later. The regicidal murderer, Elizabeth I, was no better ordering the execution of Queen Mary of the Scots and the death of Dissenters and Catholics alike? Where was she behind her words -- "I have no desire to make windows into mens' souls" -when she ordered their deaths? Indeed, a Catholic's soul or Dissenter's was like a strip of land fenced with spikes to be spied on. She spied through her agents and murdered. As British historian Diarmaid Mac Culloch point out in his work THE REFORMATION: "...England judicially murdered more Catholics than any other country in Europe...." So much for Elizabeth's "pretty restrained" policies! The disappointment of historians succeeds the delusion of Elizabeth's fan club.