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This site is dedicated - with love and respect - to aunt Margorie Ann EllaLouise
Banks
Aunt Margorie Ann EllaLouise married Ben DeYoung and is mother of my cousin Thys
Jeffrey DeYoung. Thank you cousin for all your support!
Mary Boleyn is the 13th great grandmother of Margorie Ann Ellalouise Banks; Queen Elizabeth I Tudor is the 12th great grand aunt of Margorie Ann Ellalouise Banks;
Mary, Queen of Scots Stuart is the 12th great grandmother of Margorie Ann Ellalouise Banks.
Queen Elizabeth I Tudor;
The Childhood of Queen Elizabeth I was a difficult one. Elizabeth was born 7 September 1533 at Greenwich Palace. The child of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her much awaited birth was a huge disappointed to King Henry who longed for a male heir. Everyone had predicted the birth of a boy - the King had expected it. The attitude from Queen Anne Boleyn showed great courage and was basically 'a fine healthy girl this time, a lusty boy will be next'.
Elizabeth's childhood had been fraught with changes;
One minute the beloved daughter of the King and his Queen, a Princess loved and pampered by everyone. The next minute her mother is brutally murdered by her father and the cherished Princess is striped of her title and declared a bastard.
Her father married Jane Seymour and give birth to a Prince;
Jane then dies and is replaced by another stepmother - Anne of Cleves. Anne of Cleves keeps her life but not her position as King Henry's wife - the marriage is annulled. In the same year her 49 year old father marries a kinswoman - Catherine Howard aged just 17 years old.
Poor, tragic, Catherine Howard follows the same fate of her cousin, and Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. She is beheaded.
Her father married again in 1543 - Elizabeth is just 10 years old. This time he marries a widow called Katharine Parr.
Katherine unites the children of Henry and ensures their return to court. Katharine Parr treats Elizabeth as if she were her own daughter. The marriage between Katharine Parr and Henry VIII lasts until 1547 when Henry VIII, Elizabeth's father dies. Elizabeth is left an orphan at the mercy of the powerful men and politics of the court...
Elizabeth lives in the Household of Katharine Parr;
Katharine Parr becomes the guardian of Elizabeth after Henry's death and they lived at Whitehall and Chelsea. Katharine has known only old men as her husbands and she falls in love with a younger ,handsome man. He also happens to be one of the most ambitious men at court - Thomas Seymour the brother of Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector of the young King Edward VI - Elizabeth's brother. Thomas Seymour was the Lord High Admiral of England and brother to the deceased Jane Seymour.Thomas Seymour was handsome, bold, energetic, charming, clever and boisterous.
Thomas Seymour and Elizabeth became friends;
Thomas was reported to have paid morning visits to Elizabeth, in her bedchamber, before she was dressed. There was romping, laughing and giggling. Elizabeth was very flattered. She was receiving attention from a handsome, older man. No one knows how far these romps went.
Elizabeth denied any scandal or bad behaviour. But things had gone too far and early in 1548 Elizabeth leaves Katherine Parr's household under questionable circumstances.
Elizabeth wrote to Katharine affectionately after she left her household. Katharine gave birth to a girl named Mary at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire a short time later on 30 August but died shortly after on 5 September of puerperal fever.
Thomas Seymour applied to be a suitor of Elizabeth after the death of Katharine. His suit was rejected by the Privy Council.
Seymour continued to plot for power and was arrested for treason. Elizabeth was implicated with the plots and the scandal surrounding Seymour and Elizabeth merited investigation.
Elizabeth confidently withstood all interrogation and obtained a public announcement in order to maintain her reputation.
Thomas Seymour was found guilty of High Treason and executed on March 10 1549. The scandal terrified the young Elizabeth and taught her a valuable lesson. From the time the scandal erupted Elizabeth dressed in a sombre fashion and behaved in a prim and virtuous fashion as befitted a virtuous Protestant young lady.
Coronation;
Elizabeth I, Queen of England 1558-1603
With the death of her half-sister Mary, the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon, Elizabeth succeeded to the throne of England in 1558. The bells tolled and citizens cheered. It was the beginning of the age of queens, where women would defy the principles of male-dominated rule.
Queen Elizabeth 1 would become the cornerstone of the era, guiding a kingdom with poise, wit, intellect and strong rule.
The Funeral of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor - 28 April 1603;
The new King James was welcomed by the people of England. He was a Protestant, married and already had an heir. His popularity did not last and perhaps a sign of things to come was indicated by the funeral arrangements which he approved. The people showed the dead Queen the greatest respect.
The coffin was draped in purple velvet, befitting a Queen of England. The coffin was drawn by four horses which were draped in a black livery. The coffin was covered by a large canopy which was held by six Knights of the Realm. On top of the coffin lay an effigy of Queen Elizabeth, dressed in the finest of clothes.
The long procession of mourners wound its way to Westminster Abbey. The great Queen Elizabeth I was to be laid to rest next to her half-sister. The sister who had always disliked Elizabeth and who had imprisoned her in the Tower of London - the Catholic Bloody Mary. The tomb inscription reads in translation;
" Consorts Both In Throne And Grave, Here We Rest Two Sisters " " Elizabeth And Mary, In Hope Of Our Resurrection "
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