Elizabeth wearing her mother's Anne Boleyn's A necklace?

Question

Someone from Tudor Q and A said "In the book by Alison Weir, Henry VIII King and Court, pg. 192, she writes that "personalized jewellry was highly popular." ... "Henry VIII owned a chain with H's between the links..." She confirms that Anne had not only the "B" necklace, but also the "AB" and the "A" necklace as well. She also says that Anne's "A" necklace can be seen worn by Elizabeth in the Whitehall family group portrait." unquote Ive looked everywhere for Whitehall family group portrait but can not find it. I am very curious to see Elizabeth with her mothers necklace

Answer 1

There are two pictures at the bottom of this site with Henry VIII and his family, but are not very clear.

I quote from the explanation of the larger picture:

"The Family of Henry VIII shows Henry VIII in his palace

of Whitehall, surrounded by his children. Prince

Edward stands at Henry’s right hand as his chosen

heir. On the other side of Henry is Edward’s mother,

Jane Seymour.The picture was painted in c. 1545,

eight years after her death so she never lived to see

her son as old as he appears in the picture. Jane is

shown to demonstrate Edward’s position as

legitimate heir. Further to Henry’s right is his

daughter Mary and on his left, Elizabeth. Mary is the

older and taller of the two. She wears a crucifix

round her neck as a symbol of her devotion to

Catholicism. Elizabeth wears a letter A to remind us

that she is the daughter of the disgraced Anne

Boleyn and hence furthest from succession."

http://hrp.org.uk/Resources/Henry%20VIII...

"... the chief image he preserved was that in the Whitehall family group, which was a mural painted in the presence chamber in Whitehall Palace, and which was destroyed in 1698. This was the image that portrayed the King as he wished to be – the language of Empire translated into this picture."

http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collect...

Henry had an ideal painted; his "true wife" Jane Seymour is dead, as were his parents.  I doubt that Elizabeth would have worn anything to remind Henry of his second wife in his presence; after Anne died, her portraits were generally destroyed, and nobody knows what happened to the necklace.

Answer 2

This website has a lot of portraits of Elizabeth.  http://www.marileecody.com/eliz1-images....

I don't know what the "Whitehall" portrait would be.  Henry VIII and his children all lived at Whitehall, as did Elizabeth in the early years of her reign.  After that they didn't.  So it would be a portrait from her early life.   I wonder if the person at that website could tell you - she seems to know a lot about E.