God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

Referring to (Isaiah 49:23) in a letter to William Cecil (May 1559), in Bonnet (1980), op. cit., p. 212; also in Hastings Robinson, ed., The Zurich letters: Comprising the Correspondence of several English Bishops and others with some of the Helvetian reformers, during the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, (Second Series. A.D. 1558-1602), Cambridge (England): University Press, 1845, p. 35.