FREE ESSAY ON QUEEN ELIZABETH

QUEEN ELIZABETH

I. Introduction
a. When Elizabeth was born
b. Her childhood
II. King Henry VIII.
a. his 1st marriage
1. his 1st daughter Mary
2. his devorce with het mother
b. changing of religion
1. marriage to Anne Boleyn
2. Elizabeth's birth
3. Anne Boleyn's death
c. his hier to the throne
1. Jane Seymour
2. Edward VI
3. His death
III. Elizabeth becomes queen
a. Edward VI becomes king
b. Mary becomes queen
1. she's catholic
2. leave throne to Elizabeth
c. Elizabeth comes to power
1. change in religion
2. the terrible shape England was in
3. her love affair with Robert Dudley
d. all Elizabeth's men
1. lots of emn wanted to marry
2. Robert's marriage
3. Elizabeth's marriage
IV. Closing
a. Elizabeth's great reign
b. Who took the trone after her
Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace on September 17, 1533. Her father, King Henry
VIII, was disappointed because she was a girl. After her mother's death she was sent
away. There she had everything. King Henry provided for her every need and made sure she
was taken care of. She stayed there until her time came to become Queen.
In 1501, Catherine of Aragonmarried Arther, Prince of Wales, Henry's older brother. When
his brother got sick, his father asked Henry to married Catherine. They got married in
1509. Catherine gave birth to Prince Henry of Wales, who only live seven weeks (Williams,
pg.15). Henry had an illegitimate son named Henry Fitzroy, by an Elizabeth Blount. He
died in 1536. Henry and Catherine went on to have their 2nd child together, this time a
heathy baby girl, Princess Mary Tudor. Henry broke from the Catholic Church and had his
marriage to Catherine annulled. He then married Anne Boleyn, a Protesant woman. She too
faile dot provide Henry with a son. In 1533 she gave birth to Elizabeth. They didn't have
a very long marriage. Henry had her behaeded because he thought she had committed
adultry. After Anne, Henry married Jane Seymour. She had Edward VI, who only lived to be
15 years old. This was Henry's first legitimate son.
After Henry's death in 1547, Edward went on to become king. He was Protestant, but his
reign was cute short by a disease that took his life in 1553. His half sister moved in as
Queen Mary. She was Catholic and very coldblooded. The people of England named her
"Bloody Mary", because of her persecution of protesants. She too had a very short reign,
from 1553-1558. On November 17, 1558 large crowds of people wiated outside the Palace of
Westminster to hear that there Queen had died. That day they also hear that they had a
new Queen, Elizabeth. Many people were disappointed. Some didn't like Elizabeth because
she was protestant and she wasn't married, others thought she would bring back some of
the things England had lost. Elizabeth had to fight a battle to get the English council
to lighten up on the religion. All of her intire Englsih Council or church was catholic.
She changed that though. Elizabeth hired people like Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir
William Cecil to advise her with what ever she did. They stayed by her side for the next
40 years. When Mary died, she left Elizabeth with a huge dept. England was falling and
everyone wanted something from her. Many King's and Princes' wanted to marry her, but she
wanted nothing to do with them. She was already inlove with a man. His name was Robert
Dudley, she made his earl of Leicester in 1564. He was there since before she became
Queen. She had him in her bed a few times and the town started to get suspicious. She
very well wanted to marry him, she soon found out he was married. Some time later his
wife died a really weird death. People thought that maybe he did it. Even thought it was
never proven, the two were never married. Elizabeth didn't have it in her to rule like
her sister. She wasn't hard and she didn't really know anything about being a Queen, so
when it came time to go to war she had no idea what she was doing. She lost her first
fight against Spain. Her weekness made her worry more. There were still many people who
were catholic. Many of them tried to make a plot to put her Catholic Cousin Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scottland, on the English throne. Because of the constant conflicts of religion,
Elizabeth had Mary Staurt imprisoned for 19 years, and then had her killed for know
reason.