Queen Elizabeth I?

Question

how old was she when her mom was beheaded?

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Answer 1

Elizabeth was almost 3 when her mother died.

Elizabeth was born in Greenwich Palace on 7 September 1533 and named after her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth of York. She was the second legitimate child of Henry VIII of England to survive infancy; her mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. At birth, Elizabeth was the heiress presumptive to the throne of England. Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne.  King Henry had desperately wanted a legitimate son, to ensure the Tudor succession. After Elizabeth's birth, Queen Anne failed to provide a male heir. She suffered at least two miscarriages, one in 1534 and another at the beginning of 1536. On 2 May 1536, she was arrested and imprisoned. Hastily convicted on trumped-up charges, she was beheaded on 19 May 1536.

Elizabeth, who was nearly three years old at the time, was declared illegitimate and deprived of the title of princess.[13] Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's death, Henry married Jane Seymour,  who died 12 days after the birth of their son, Prince Edward. Elizabeth was placed in Edward's household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.



The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul, a manuscript translation from the French, by Elizabeth, aged 11, presented to Catherine Parr in 1544. The embroidered binding with the monogram KP for "Katherin Parr" is believed to have been worked by Elizabeth. Elizabeth's first governess, Lady Margaret Bryan, wrote that she was “as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life”.  At the age of four, Elizabeth passed into the care of Catherine Champernowne, better known by her later, married name of Catherine “Kat” Ashley, who remained Elizabeth’s friend for life. Champernowne clearly made a good job of Elizabeth’s early education: by the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian. Under Grindal, a talented and skillful tutor, she also progressed in French and Greek.  After Grindal died in 1548, Elizabeth received her education under Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be fun. By the time her formal education ended in 1550, she was the best educated woman of her generation.

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If you are interested in Elizabeth I, you might enjoy watching Masterpiece Theatre - Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen

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Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I born on September 7th, 1533 was nearly three years old at the time when her mother Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery, incest and witchcraft. Immediately after her mother was beheaded on May 19th, 1536, Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of the title of princess. Throughout the rest of her childhood and early adulthood she was only addressed as "Lady Elizabeth" until she was crowned Queen of England.

Note: Although Elizabeth I never really knew her mother, and was brought up by her governess, she always wore a ring with a portrait of Anne Boleyn on her finger in memory of her ill-fated mother.