jueves, 21 de mayo de 2015

Elizabeth I, Queen without a King

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

3 comentarios:

  1. This is so interesting! I almost wrote about the same! There is another rumor, some people say that she was a man because when she was a baby her father gave her to a family to take care of her because there was a epidemic or something like that in England, so they say that probably she died and they replaced Elizabeth for any other baby who looked like her, and that was a boy.
    I think that was a good decision to be single because she only though about her empire.

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  2. This is so interesting! I almost wrote about the same! There is another rumor, some people say that she was a man because when she was a baby her father gave her to a family to take care of her because there was a epidemic or something like that in England, so they say that probably she died and they replaced Elizabeth for any other baby who looked like her, and that was a boy.
    I think that was a good decision to be single because she only though about her empire.

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    1. Yes, I read that too, but probably this fact wasn´t true, because heirs to the crown died all the time in the 16th century, isn´t necessary lie about that.

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