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Motto : "semper eadem" or "always the same"

Born September 7, 1533
Reign Began: November 17, 1558
Crowned: January 15, 1559
Died March 24, 1603

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Character's backstory: Only surviving child of Anne Boleyn & Henry VIII.

Gentility: Tudor family

Born: Greenwich Palace

Position: Princess of Wales (title later revoked and reduced to just the courtesy title of "Lady"), Lady Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I

Personality type: Elizabeth's personality was a vibrant one. She was an intelligent Renaissance princess, speaking English, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, and Welsh in addition to studying subjects like state craft, theology, rhetoric, philosophy, and arithmetic. She was very witty and clever. She knew how to use her gender for survival and political gain.

Signature look: Dark eyes of her mother and bright red hair & pale skin of her father.

Endearing trait(s): Elizabeth was known for her wit, love for her people, and her intelligence. Like her mother she was neurotic, she never married and was adamant to never surrender to her position and never to take a consort.
She was married only once... to England.

Annoying trait(s): Her indecisiveness and short-temper, neurotic.

Scandal(s): Her supposed affair with her stepfather, Thomas Seymour; the Thomas Wyatt rebellion; and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Nickname(s): The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen, Good Queen Bess




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CHARACTER CONNECTIONS



Family members:
Paternal Grandfather: Henry VII Tudor
Paternal Grandmother: Elizabeth of York
Maternal Grandfather: Thomas Boleyn
Maternal Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard
Father: King Henry VIII.
Mother: Anne Boleyn
Half-Sister: Princess Mary Tudor, later Queen Mary I (nick-named 'Bloody Mary')
Half-Brother: Prince Edward Tudor, later King Edward VI
Half-Brother: Henry Fitzroy,Fitzroy, died early at 16 years, Elizabeth never really met him.



Later Romance(s):
Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Thomas Seymour
Francois, Duke of Anjou
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
riendsFriends:
Prince Edward Tudor, later King Edward VI: only a four-year difference in ages, they were very close and wrote many letters expressing their friendship

She got along well with Catherine Parr and Anne of Cleves, two of her step-mothers

Blanche Perry (the woman who nursed Elizabeth, and supposedly taught her the Welsh language)


Katherine "Kat" Ashley nee Champernowne (governess) - Elizabeth came to love Kat dearly and she played an important role in her life as a friend and confidante. Elizabeth praised Kat’s early devotion to her studies by stating that she took “great labor and pain in bringing of me up in learning and honesty”.


Lady Bryan - her governess until Edward was born when she was transferred to take care of him.

Matthew Parker (1504 - 1575 ) played a special role in the early childhood of Princess Elizabeth. Anne Boleyn'sBoleyn's chaplain who felt he was entrusted with the spiritual well being of her daughter. Elizabeth always trusted Matthew Parker - her sister Mary hated him due to his Protestant beliefs. When Elizabeth eventually became Queen she appointed Matthew Parker as the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham: Elizabeth's cousin, the daughter of Anne Boleyn's sister, Mary Boleyn

Thomas Parry (1505 - 1560 ) was a Welshman and was appointed steward to Elizabeth in her teenage years

William Cecil: Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.


Lord Robert Dudley - (possibly her lover)

Sir Francis Walsingham: He created a net of spies so great that is even recognized today

Enemies:
The Catholic Faction

UNFORGETTABLE QUOTES


  • "How haps it govenor? Yesterday my lady princess, today but my lady Elizabeth?" - Elizabeth after the death of her mother asking why her status has changed

DEFINING EPISODES | MEMORABLE SCENES











PHOTOS
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Baby Elizabeth in her mother, Anne Boleyn's arms 1533.

Princess Elizabeth Tudor

Baptism of Elizabeth by her godfather, Archbishop Cranmer.



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c. 1545 detail from the Tudor Family Portrait
as Princess Elizabeth

henry holds baby elizabeth



Anne & Baby Elizabeth




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ER I - Signature
Portrait of Elizabeth c. 1546 (around age 13)
Anne & Elizabeth
Elizabeth & Anne
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Elizabeth as a child in her father, Henry's arms 1536


The story of Elizabeth through her Portraits.




Historian David Starkey discusses Elizabeth's Childhood.

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Anne Boleyn - The Tudors Wiki

Anne Boleyn - The Tudors Wiki
Above is the locket ring which belonged
to Queen Elizabeth I.
The ring bears the initial 'E' in table-cut
diamonds and contains
miniature busts of Elizabeth herself
and the other of her mother, Anne Boleyn (to the right)


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Anne Boleyn - The Tudors Wiki
Miniature portrait of Anne Boleyn -
inside the ring that her Daughter Elizabeth I
constantly wore and was removed from her finger
after her death and sent to James VI of Scotland
as evidence of her death showing how important
the ring and her mother was to Elizabeth.



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