Did Queen Elizabeth I ever say anything about her parentage to Anne Boleyn?

Question

I just wonder, because she was treated notoriously, and even though Queen Elizabeth was a very successful monarch, I wonder, did she ever say anything about her mother that actually survives today? It would be interesting to know anything she had to say about her mother...

It's just a thought. I was watching a play of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon was in it. You'd think that they would try and make a saint out of Anne Boleyn if she was the mother of the monarch, with Mary Tudor being dead and all...

If anyone has anything they can point me towards, I'd be most grateful. I love Tudor history, but the fact is more interesting than fiction to me.

Answer 1

I saw that movie on her, and itw as horrible. HORRIBLE.

Answer 2

I have actually seen very few direct quotes from Elizabeth. I have seen her plea not to be sent to the tower, and a direct quote from her when she was very young that said she did not want to marry. I have never seen anything about her thoughts on her mother.

Henry married his fourth wife, Katherine Howard, before Elizabeth's 7th birthday. Elizabeth supposedly was fond of her. When Henry had her executed less than two years later, it has been speculated that Elizabeth knew what had happened to her own mother, and was seeing the same thing happen to her stepmother.

It is possible that Elizabeth did not think it was wise to put anything in writing about her mother. Her father died when she was 13. It probably wasn't very common to exercise the demons of your childhood in writing during the 16th century.

Answer 3

As far as I know, Elizabeth never mentioned her mother.  However, she did have a ring in which were her portrait and that of Anne Boleyn:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page2090....

http://tudorswiki.sho.com/page/Princess+...

Elizabeth also was known to have favoured her Boleyn relatives when she was Queen.

Alison Weir writes well on her; you might like to try her books, "Children of England" (Elizabeth's early life) and "The Life of Elizabeth I".  She's a social historian, so there are many examples of the Queen's personal life.

Answer 4

Then Queen Elizabeth who lives today is the daughter of Queen Elizabeth , who passed away in 2002.