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Princess Elizabeth Tudor as played by Kate Duggan (season 2), Claire MacCauley (season 3)
Mottoes : "Semper Eadem" meaning "Always the Same"
and "Video et taceo"
meaning "I see and remain silent"

Born September 7, 1533 - died March 24, 1603
Reign Began: November 17, 1558 (aged 25)
Crowned: January 15, 1559


Elizabeth I - The Tudors Wiki
Character's backstory: Only surviving child of Anne Boleyn & Henry VIII.

Gentility: Tudor family

Born: Greenwich Palace

Position: Princess (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, but circumspect. She was an intelligent Renaissance princess, speaking English, Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Hebrew, 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.

Elizabeth was a pretty and witty Princess with a extrodianry likeness to her father,who she saw as a great prince.The princess was a fair and beautiful Princess who in latter of her life amused her courtiers with her witty converstations and beautiful ways with languages.

Signature look: Dark (brown or blue) eyes of her mother and bright red hair & pale skin of her father. Slender frame; beautiful hands. Understood, as did her mother, the importance of ostentatious display, as befitting the power and divinely bestowed privilege of Renaissance monarchy.

Endearing trait(s): Elizabeth was known for her wit, love for her people; intelligence and intellectual pursuits. Wrote poetry and was a gifted musician. Like her mother she was of a volatile temperament. 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; short-temper.

Scandal(s): inappropriate behaviour with her stepfather, Thomas Seymour at age sixteen; the Thomas Wyatt rebellion; intimate relationship with her Master of the Horse Robert Dudley; and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (at which she prevaricated for almost two decades).

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

Burial: in a shared tomb with her sister, Queen Mary I in Westminster Abbey in the chapel of Henry VII







Princess Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth (Season 3)
by Claire MacCauley


Princess Elizabeth as played by Kate Duggan
Princess Elizabeth (Season 2)
by Kate Duggan

Elizabeth I's signature

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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, 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


Enemies:
The Catholic Faction
Her Sister, Princess Mary Tudor (when Mary became queen, Elizabeth was suspected of being involved in revolts against her, but nothing was proved.)
Mary, Queen of Scots
Phillip II of Spain
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 Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard (on hearing of her demise swore she would never marry) & Catherine Parr, three of her step-mothers

Blanche Parry (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 she had entrusted him with her daughter's spiritual well being. 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.

Lord Robert Dudley - They had known each other since she was 8 years old and they probably were schooled together.

Catherine Knollys (nee Carey): Wife of Sir Francis Knollys. Not to be confused with her niece Katherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham who was the daughter of her brother, Henry Carey: 1st Baron Hunson. 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

Later when she was Queen:

William Cecil: Advisor

Sir Francis Walsingham: He created a net of spies so great that is even recognized today
Sir Walter Raleigh- Pirate, Founder of Roanoke Colony that mysteriously disappeared while he was in England with Elizabeth I
Sir Christopher Hatton
Sir Francis Drake- Famous Pirate known to have been most successful raider of Spanish ships

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

  • Items from her household are taken in order to pay for her mother's imprisonment and execution, and listens in on Lady Bryan's advice to one of her maids (episode 2.10)
  • When she gets welcomed back to court and has a conversation in French with Henry (S3.3)
  • At Anne of Cleves' welcome she gives Anne Flowers.(S3)
For more on Elizabeth - Click links below

Elizabeth I - The Tudors Wiki



PHOTOS
Princess Elizabeth as played by Claire MacCauley
Elizabeth I - The Tudors Wiki

c. 1545 from the Tudor Family Portrait
as Princess Elizabeth


Princess Elizabeth & her father, the King
Elizabeth with her father
and below with her half sister Mary
Princesses Elizabeth and Princess Mary
Princess Elizabeth Tudor
Portrait of Elizabeth c. 1546 (around age 13)
Princess Elizabeth
Season 2
Kate Duggan
Princess Elizabeth Tudor - The Tudors Wiki
Season 3
Claire McCauley
My Daughter Elizabeth-Promo Clip for episode 3.3
Mary, Elizabeth, and handmaids

Sarah Bolger (Princess Mary Tudor, front right) and Claire MacCauley (Princess Elizabeth Tudor, back right) with two handmaids on set.







For more on Elizabeth - Click link below
Queen Elizabeth I - historical profile Elizabeth I - The Tudors Wiki




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TudorFan89 Quick Question 3 Sep 4 2009, 11:35 PM EDT by TudorFan89
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I know its little random but does the R in Elizabeth R mean. I was watching Elizabeth the Golden age and they had it.

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Neta07 Was Cranmer Elizabeth's Godfather? 9 Jul 5 2009, 12:12 PM EDT by Maidsinarow
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I haven't come across this any-were but is Cranmer Elizabeth's godfather?
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Scarlett45 Elizabeth I- a Virgin or Not.......your thoughts (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) 101 Jun 28 2009, 10:02 AM EDT by s.rochie
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Reasons she might have been-

Elizabeth was not an idiot. She was not about to risk her throne/her life for a role in the hay and be discovered through an accidental pregnancy. Her throne was more important to her than any physical desire might have been. Also what happened if the man she decided to be intimate with turned against her- what then? Have him executed to keep him quiet??........Elizabeth was a sexual woman, if she didnt have intercourse Im sure she didnt go through 70yrs of life with NO physical contact with a man..........

Reasons she might not have been a virgin-

Human nature. Sex is a basic human desire. Even when the consequences are VERY negative(pregnancy, disgrace, eternal damnation, fatal illness etc) most people give into their sexual desires at some point, even if their entire up bringing says these desires are wrong. Once Elizabeth hit menopause she would have been free to have intercourse without fear of pregnancy....being the passionate woman she was this seems very possible.

I honestly dont know either way, I think this is something we can never know as we weren't there to witness her life. I sit on the fence on this matter.
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