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Elizabeth Tudor as played by Kate Duggan
Motto : "semper eadem" or "always the same"
Elizabeth Tudor as played by Kate Duggan
Motto : "semper eadem" or "always the same"
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| Born September 7, 1533 Reign Began: November 17, 1558 Crowned: January 15, 1559 Died March 24, 1603  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; intimate relationship with her Master of the Horse Robert Dudley; and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Nickname(s): The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queen, Good Queen Bess |    Click EasyEdit to update this page! |
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, 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 | Friends: 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 PerryParry (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'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 |
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 Baby Elizabeth in her mother, Anne Boleyn's arms 1533.  Baptism of Elizabeth by her godfather, Archbishop Cranmer. |  c. 1545 detail from the Tudor Family Portrait as Princess Elizabeth |
  |   Portrait of Elizabeth c. 1546 (around age 13) |
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 Elizabeth as a child in her father, Henry's arms 1536 |  |
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| The story of Elizabeth through her Portraits. | Historian David Starkey discusses Elizabeth's Childhood. Click here if the youtube doesn't work for you. |
  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) |   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. |
