Queen Elizabeth...The Virgin Queen?

Question

My question is: If Queen Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn...Who got the thrown after Elizabeth's 40 year's? Did she marry after all? Im confused....

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Answer 1

Queen Elizabeth did not marry.  She was succeeded by James I, son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband, Elizabeth's cousin Lord Darnley.

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Answer 2

Before the death of Elizabeth I, she had already decided to pass the crown to her Scottish nephew, James IV of Scotland. His claim to the English throne comes from his mother, Mary Queen of Scot, who was the granddaughter of Princess Margaret Tudor, and grand niece of King Henry VIII of England. Since James IV was a protestant and rightful heir to the English crown, he was the best candidate to succeed Elizabeth I.  Queen Elizabeth I died on March 24, 1603 at the age of 70, her death not only marked the end of the "Elizabethan Golden Age", but also the end of the Tudor Dynasty. Her nephew was crowned King James I of England and beginning of the Stuart rule.

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Elizabeth I never married since her privy council could not settle on the best suitor for her, and in the end she was becoming too old to marry and finally decided not to marry at all. Whether she remained a virigin or not will always remain a mystery. Queen Elizabeth I declared herself the Virgin Queen, when she decided that rather marrying to a man, she married herself to England. This was all a propoganda to settle the confrontations between the Protestants and the Catholics. Queen Elizabeth I was a conservative protestant, and she believed that the only way to establish peace between the two religions is to make herself appear as the "Virgin Mary" figure." The Parliament believed that this strategy will somehow ease the Catholics resentment towards Protestants and see that both religions share the same beliefs to a certain degree. It is only a symbol rather than a reality. The queen was probably not a virgin, and it was widely known that she and Robert Dudley were true lovers. She died on March 24,1603 with a love letter from Robert Dudley in her hands.

Answer 3

She never married that is why she is called the virgin queen that doesn't mean to say she was a virgin..

Answer 4

The Tudor line ended with Elizabeth's death in 1603. She never married and thus never had any children. The throne passed to James of Scotland, a Stuart who was the son of Elizabeth's cousin Queen Mary.

Answer 5

Ok.  It did pass to James I of the Stuart family.  He was previously the ruler of Scotland.  She was not a virgin because she had relationships with people.  However, it was not "proper" for someone to have s*x outside of marriage, so they nicknamed her "the Virgin Queen".  She vowed never to marry because a marriage would be an alliance which would upset the balance of power in Europe.

Answer 6

James VI and I was the great grandson of her elder aunt, Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV.

No, Rachelle is wrong.

The successor was James VI not IV.

Elizabeth did not "decide" he should get the throne.  He was the legitimate heir, following the rules of succession for England.

Answer 7

Her second cousin, King James I of England, and VI of Scotland, son of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Just as whenever the royal line dies out, they go to the next in line, starting with brothers/sisters, and then into cousins.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

James VI.  James succeeded because of the advance work of Cecil and Lord Henry Hasting, because he was the most realistic candidate, and because fifteen councillors and noble men signed the warrant that commanded the proclamation of his style.

She never married, although she had many suitors, none of which were actually suitable for a variety of reasons.  James VI was not actually the most likely successor for much of her reign, but careful plotting made him seem so by the end of Elizabeth's reign.  

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Answer 10

The tuder line ended with elizabeth and passed onto the stuart house, James the 1st (who was at elizabeths reign king of scotland) was given rule of great britain being the next nobleman in line to the throne.

Answer 11

The throne went to James VI of Scotland, who was the son of Elizabeth's cousin Mary, Queen of Scots.  Mary was the granddaughter of Henry VIII's older sister Margaret, so her son James was the closest and most logical person to be Elziabeth's heir.

However, Elizabeth did not name him as her heir until she was on her deathbed, she did not want people running off to pay court to James while she was still alive.

Re; the comments which claim that she was not a virgin: this is extremely unlikely, because the risks of scandal or of pregnancy would have been so great that it is most unlikley elizabeth would ever have taken such a risk, even if she had been able to escape detection, which is even more unlikely, since she was watched all the time.