Elizabeth Tudor was a Princess, daughter of Henry VIII
and Anne Boleyn. She become a Queen after the dead of her half-sister Maria I.
Scene from Elizabeth (movie 1998)
Her reign is considered one of the most important in
English history and it lasted for 45 years, but one thing for she is remembered
is because she never gets married.
Why is so important this? Well, for this time, the royal
marriage was something merely politic, it was a best way for alliance between 2
countries or 2 allies and produced an inheritor was a proof of the alliance, but
Why Elizabeth I chose never to marry? There are some theories about this, one
theory refers she had a loving trauma and she didn´t believe in love. I think that she had a father who commands to
cut off the head of his wife; probably I would not want to marry either.
Scene from Elizabeth (movie 1998)
Other theories are that she was a man, she was lesbian
or she had a genital malformation, but officially, she didn’t marry because if
she had chosen a foreign prince he would use to England for his own purposes and
she had chosen an English subject could have a division inside of the country.
Scene from Elizabeth (movie 1998)
In England she is recognized like a woman who
sacrificed her happiness for the good of the nation, they said that she didn’t marry to a man because she was already married to England.
Scene from Elizabeth (movie 1998)
Finally Elizabeth was a Queen, she didn’t need a man
for to reign and probably she had some hiding lovers, but still is called the “Virgin
Queen”.
Reference
http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensofengland/thetudors/elizabethi.aspx
Reference
http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/kingsandqueensofengland/thetudors/elizabethi.aspx
