I suspect it's because that's when England came of age, and became a European power.
(Or maybe we prefer the Welsh, rather than the Scots or the Germans. For whatever value of Welsh the Tudors actually were. We certainly didn't get on terribly well with the Scots - Stuart kings were overthrown twice within the century.)
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I suspect it's because that's when England came of age, and became a European power.
(Or maybe we prefer the Welsh, rather than the Scots or the Germans. For whatever value of Welsh the Tudors actually were. We certainly didn't get on terribly well with the Scots - Stuart kings were overthrown twice within the century.)