Early days of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth was born, it became the case of ‘Oh dear’ for the royal couple. She was, of course, expected to be a boy rather than a female. There was a sense of bitter sweetness in the soul of King Henry VIII during the celebration of Elizabeth’s first ever birthday.
To make matters worse, Elizabeth’s mother ‘Anne Boleyn’ goes on to have serval miscarriages, due to which it was clear that her mother is no more able to give birth to another infant who can be a boy child.
The little girl was seen as ignored child of the couple. Maybe this is the reason why she was kept away from the Kingdom and raised by the caretakers and not by her parents even though her mother kept on visiting her place, which shows the unfair love between them.
Unfortunately, Anne Boleyn died because of the execution posed by a French swordsman on behalf of the order of King Henry, and Elizabeth lost her mother at a painfully young age.
Interestingly, she wasn’t told about the brutal execution of her mother, but Elizabeth was a precautious young girl, and she noticed something had changed immediately. The lady how to use to visit her visits her no longer.
Elizabeth as a teenager
Elizabeth has always been in difficulties and problems at her young age that is projected by an external force like her father and step-mother. The young girl was commemorated as the little princess of king Henry. But soon, this title was snatched away from her.
Elizabeth is punished for her mother’s disgrace. She stripped up the title of princes and demoted to the lady.
Many historical documents suggest that Elizabeth was forced to live away from her parents and sent to live in isolation with the governess.
In the following years, Henry the VIII remarried and finally had a son who was named ‘Edward’. But a series of letters shows that Elizabeth was continuously ignored by the royal family. These archives showed that the hardship which she went through during her childhood.
Lady Bryan (Elizabeth’s caretaker) was pleading with her family members to supply the necessary clothes and other food items as child support for the young girl to flourish. Although, the members use to rejects those proposals and deny to give the necessities.
Rise to the Throne
When Elizabeth was 19 years old, her father died, which eventually resulted in the shift of the throne to her half-brother Edward. But the future was something else, and the sickly boy passes a few years later after he became the only king.
And in his place, Elizabeth I’s catholic sister ‘Mary’ become the queen as she was older than her. Sooner or later, even her sister gets low in health and dies. Many protestants pushed for Elizabeth to be named as successor.
Back then, in 1753, she became the queen of England and crowed as the only progeny to continue the throne. Queen Elizabeth, was not interested in marriage. Hence there was no king, and Henry VIII’s chair remains unseated to date.