Queen Elizabeth I Research Paper

Queen Elizabeth I, better known as the Virgin Queen, was England’s longest reigning monarch. She claimed the throne at the age of twenty-five and she ruled for forty-four years, until her death. Jessica Creton, from The Elizabeth Files, states, “A woman being in charge of England was not seen as a good thing, [but] she has changed this vision forever.” So the question stands, how did this extraordinary woman, of the sixteenth century, do it?
Elizabeth I of England was born on September 7, 1533, to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. For Henry VIII, the birth of a second daughter was a bitter disappointment, because he so longed for a male heir. His bitterness towards Anne had cost her and Elizabeth a mother-daughter relationship, because her mother was found guilty of adultery and was executed in 1536, when Elizabeth was just two years of age. This queen-to-be was brought up in a broken household (more like palace) at the start, yet she still thrived, with the help of her many stepmothers, including Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr.
After her mother’s death, Elizabeth was declared illegitimate, due to political machinations. Luckily, her stepmother, Jane Seymour, Henry’s third wife, had her …show more content…
Queen Mary I of England was not a well-liked monarch and she was an extreme religious activist for the Roman Catholic Church, and was very suspicious of Elizabeth, who was raised Protestant and quite popular with the people. Mary I had Elizabeth arrested and sent her to the Tower of London, due to false accusations that Elizabeth was associated with the Wyatt Rebellion of 1554. In total, Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower for two months and then in the uninhabitable Woodstock Manor in Oxfordshire for a year and finally she was moved back into her childhood household, Hatfield in