Queen Elizabeth and Her Reign

Elizabeth's early years:

Elizabeth Tudor, who would become Elizabeth I of England, also known as "Elizabeth the Great". She was born September 7, 1533, at Greenwich Palace. The princess was the second daughter of King Henry VIII, a monarch loved by the people and obsessed with the need for a male child. Elizabeth's mother was the Ann Boleyn, the second of Henry's six wives. When Elizabeth was four, her brother Edward was born, who would later reign for six years as Edward VI, until his death at the age of 16.

Although Edward was the youngest child, his sex gave him preference to the throne over his sisters.

When the princess was only two years old, King Henry, desperate for a male heir and upset at Ann Boleyn, had Ann executed. Although the facts of her mother's death were hidden from the young girl for years, it appears she figured out the truth on her own. Yet she nonetheless admired and loved her father, despite his continued practice of marrying and killing wife after wife in hopes of producing a male heir.

Henry died when Elizabeth was 14 years old.This put her ten-year-old brother Edward, now Edward VI, on the throne. As one of Edward's closest friends, Elizabeth was now in much power, After Edward's death from tuberculosis at 16, Mary her Half-sister was now Queen of England.

On 17 November 1558 it is said that Princess Elizabeth was sitting under an oak tree at Hatfield House when a horseman appeared with the news that would change her life forever. Elizabeth, aged twenty-five, was now Queen of England. Mary had died unpopular with the British people and tormented by her owninability to produce a som. The country now looked to the young Queen for better times.

Queen Elizabeth I's family:

Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Because of the fact that Henry VIII have had so many wives, and had affairs while he was married, there is doubt about how many siblings Elizabeth have, but the information on the internet says that she got 2, a half brother and a half sister.

Henry VII was married to Anne Boleyn, but thought she was cheating on him, so he got her killed in May 1536. Already 11 days after her death, Henry VIII married another women. She was her third women and was called Jane Seymour.

Queen Elizabeth never got married, and because of that, she never got the chance to get children, which is why she was the last of the Tudors. It is also therefore she got the nickname “the virgin Queen.”