William Camden wrote:Apparently one of the languages she knew was Dutch, a common second language for maritime nations at the time.
She had a rather bitter exchange with the Polish ambassador to England on one occasion - the discussion took place in Latin.
I love this idea of a heated discussion in Latin as late as the Renaissance. If that sort of thing was still happening, then it wasn't a dead language at the time.
Shame no one recorded it for posterity (I'm assuming).