Queen Elizabeth I Research Paper

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The Virgin Queen
Elizabeth’s father Henry VIII reformed his country’s ancient times. King Henry did that so he would be able to marry Anne Boeleyn, he hoped that Anne would give him a healthy son because his first wife Catherine of Aragon never did. On September 7th, 1533 Anne gave birth to a blooming girl which Henry and her named Elizabeth, she was born in Greenwich Palace(Elizabeth 1). King Henry didn’t get exactly what he wanted but he was happy with the family he had because he never got the chance to experience some of these things with his first wife. Elizabeth’s mother was headed to the Tower Green on May 19th, 1536. She was arrested and executed before Elizabeth was even three years of age. After being at court for Christmas, that …show more content…

Her life was discombobulated because she was the king and queens daughter and with that brings a lot of pressure onto her. It may be stressful because she has to learn and deal with a cluster of things. Elizabeth Tudor was born on 7 September 1533 at Greenwich Palace, her birth was one of the most exciting political events in the 16th century European history (Elizabeth 1). Confident predictions of astrologers and physicians were wrong and wait for a prince turned out to be a princess (Elizabeth 1). Her parents were bitterly disappointed with her sex (Elizabeth 1533-1603). She inherited a bankrupt nation, torn by religious discord, a weakened pawn between the great powers of France and Spain (Queen Elizabeth 1). Elizabeth became Queen on November 17th, 1558, her coronation was January 15th, 1558 at Westminster Abbey (Elizabeth 1). She was twenty-five years old, a survivor of scandal, and danger, and considered illegitimate by most Europeans (Queen Elizabeth 1). She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth 1). She was a princess but declared illegitimate through political machinations (Thomas, Dylan). Queen Elizabeth is considered by many the greatest monarch in English History. Elizabeth died March 24th, 1603 in Richmond Palace. Only few years after her death in 1603, lamented her passing, in her greatest speech to Parliament, she told them “I count the glory of my crown that I have reigned with your love” (Queen Elizabeth 1). Proud and haughty, as though she knows she was born of such a mother, nevertheless does not consider herself of inferior degree to the Queen whom she equals in self-esteem; nor does she believe herself less than her majesty (Queen Elizabeth 1). Elizabeth 1 was the long-ruling queen of England, governing with relative stability and prosperity for forty-four years (Thomas, Dylan). She ruled alone for nearly half a century,