Q&A: was Hood an enlarged Renown?

Was HMS Hood basically an enlarged Renown or a battlecruiser version of the Queen Elizabeth class?

Hood fused both ideas, but her design lineage was more an evolution of Renown with Queen Elizabeth armament and protection ambitions.

Hood can be described as an enlarged development of Renown, though she was no simple copy. The Admiral-class design drew more heavily on the Renown lineage for its fast battlecruiser structure and overall concept. It incorporated the Queen Elizabeth class's four-turret armament and a protection standard shaped by battleship requirements. The result was a fusion whose architectural ancestry remained more Renown than Queen Elizabeth. Shared guns alone do not establish a ship's design lineage.