She's head of the Anglican church, a semi protestant church. There are several Protestant churches founded beyond and outside the influence of England. The original Protestant was Martin Luther, a German. Germans spread Protestantism and several variants including Lutherans, Methodists, and Calvinists. Anglican and Episcopalian are versions of protestantism borne out of Brittain. Queen Elizabeth I had a political battle with the Roman Catholic church. The church lost and the Anglican church was borne. Otherwise, the Church of England follows the same philosophies and practices as Rome.