Is it true that Queen Elizabeth stood without talking for 15 hours before she died?

Question

Is it true that Queen Elizabeth stood without talking for 15 hours before she died?

Answer 1

i don't know.......................... i wasn't there.

Answer 2

no idea i dont think alot of people would know

Answer 3

Woman awake, still, not talking, 15 hours??

How the h**l can you make a coherent sentence out of that?

Not possible!

Answer 4

Yes.

The Queen was already very ill, complaining of a heat in her b*****s and dryness in the mouth.  Her courtiers tried to get her to retire to bed, but she refused, telling Nottingham, "If you were in the habit of seeing such things in your bed as I do when in mine, you would not persuade me to go there."  She added that "she had a premonition that, if she once lay down, she would never rise."

One day, she had herself lifted into a low chair.  When she found herself unable to rise from it, she commanded her attendants to help her to her feet.  Once in that position, by a supreme effort of will and a determination to defy mortality, she remained there unmoving for fifteen hours, watched by her appalled yet helpless courtiers.  At length, fainting with exhaustion, she was helped back on to her cushions, where she remained for a further four days.

Scroll to the bottom of this for a description of Elizabeth's death:

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutElizab...

Answer 5

why would she do that?

Answer 6

sybaris hit the nail on the head,