Queen elizabeth i biography facts record
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Early Years
On September 7, 1533, Elizabeth Tudor was born a disappointment to all. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, had retired to Greenwich Palace to give birth, confident in her future as the mother of England’s next king. Her optimistic father, Henry VIII, had shrugged off papal authority and become Supreme Head of a national church in large part because he wanted a legitimate male heir. The Catholic supporters of Henry’s popular, but now discarded, first wife, Catherine of Aragon, saw the punishing hand of God in the arrival of another royal bastard; Protestant reformers joined the royal parents in hoping that the next child would be a healthy boy who would solidify the dynasty and new Church of England.
Named for her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth spent her early years away from her parents in a separate household shared with her elder half-sister, Mary Tudor. Under the tutelage of the humanist scholar Roger Ascham, Elizabeth read philosophy and theology and learned Lat
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Elizabeth I
Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603
"Elizabeth of England" and "Elizabeth Tudor" redirect here. For other uses, see Elizabeth inom (disambiguation), Elizabeth of England (disambiguation), and Elizabeth historisk period (disambiguation).
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the gods and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the relaterat till elizabethansk tid era.
Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two years old, her parents' marriage was annulled, her mother was executed, and Elizabeth was declared oäkta. Henry restored her to the line of efterträdelse eller följd when she was 10, via the Third efterträdelse eller följd Act 1543. After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward oss ruled until his own death in 1553
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Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I gave her name to a golden age of poets, statesmen and adventurers. Known as the Virgin Queen, or Gloriana, her union with her people became a substitute for the marriage she never made.
Her reign, known as the Elizabethan Age, is remembered for many reasons… the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and for many great men, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Hawkins, Drake, Walsingham, Essex and Burleigh.
She was endowed with great courage. As a young woman she had been imprisoned in the Tower of London on the orders of her half-sister, Queen Mary I, and lived in daily fear that she would be executed as her mother, Anne Boleyn had been.
Elizabeth, unlike her sister Mary, was a Protestant and declared when she became Queen ‘that she did not make windows into men’s souls’ and that her people could follow any religion they wished.
She was a great beauty in her youth. She had hazel eyes, auburn hair and a white skin, a striking combination. But in her old