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Where did elizabeth 1st live before she was queen and before she was inprisoned for a year?

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  1. Elizabeth had many households before removal from the succession.  She was born in Greenwich Palace (The Palace of Placentia) and she spent her first few years being educated at the royal "nursery" of Hatfield Palace.  She would spend Christmases at Richmond Palace (eventually) and would spend the summers at Hampton Court Palace.  When Henry VIII died, Elizabeth  went to stay with her step-mother, Katherine Parr, at Sudeley Castle.  But, following an incident where she was caught in the arms of Lord Thomas Seymour, Elizabeth was sent back to Hatfield Palace where she would regularly correspond with her step-mother and her half-brother, King Edward VI.  In 1554, Elizabeth was at Hatfield when she was accused of treason and taken to the Tower of London on the orders of her half-sister, Mary I.  Upon her release, she was taken and held under house arrest at the manor of Woodstock in Oxfordshire, under the care of Sir Henry Bedingfield, the man she would refer to as "myne gaoler" (jailer).  While under the care of Bedingfield, Elizabeth would be moved back and forth between Woodstock, Hatfield, Richmond and Hampton Court.  It was while she was at Hatfield she learned of the death of Mary and her accession to the throne (after Mary acknowledged her as her heir).


  2. She was born at Greenwich, and she lived much of her time at Hatfield House (or Place, or Palace) which was granted to her as her own household.  Early years were also spent in London, Chelsea, with Katherine Parr and Thomas Seymour (who is thought to have abused her with Katherine's consent or, at least, who turned a blind eye).  She also spent time at her father's court - which was wherever he was - when she was in his favour.  When she was told of her father's death, at age 13, she was at Enfield.  She also moved around to Hunsdon, Westminster, Whitehall, Richmond, Hampton Court and Windsor.

    Hatfield was the place she spent most of her time, under governesses and tutors, and it was here that she heard of her half-sister's death and that she was Queen.  She said, in Latin, "This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes".

  3. Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich Palace on 7 September 1533 and named after her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth of York. She spent most of her childhood at Hatfield House,  a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

    After Henry VIII's death, her step-mother, Catherine Parr and her husband, Thomas Seymour of Sudeley took Elizabeth into their household at Chelsea. There Elizabeth experienced an emotional crisis that historians believe affected her for the rest of her life. After she was sent away, she returned to Hatfield House and remained there til she was imprisoned at the Tower of London under Mary I's reign.

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