Who took care of Princess Elizabeth after Anne Boleyn was beheaded.?

Question

The Reason I ask is because in the book as well as the film " The Other Boleyn Girl" Mary took care of her, but I aslo know that Greggory made up some of the stuff. So does any one know?

Answer 1

---7 Sep 1533:  Disappointed over the birth of a daughter, Henry VIII refuses to make much of a fuss over Elizabeth; she is, however, granted her own household (as is customary) at the Royal Palace of Hatfield where Margaret, Lady Bryan, is charged with her care.

---1536: Elizabeth, age 2 years and 8 months, is declared illegitimate and deprived of her princess title upon the death of her mother, Anne Bolelyn, 19 May 1536.  Henry VIII is bethrothed to Jane Seymour on May 20th and marries her ten days later.  In July, Catherine "Kat" Champernowe, later Ashley (? -- 1565) becomes waiting gentlewoman to Lady Elizabeth.  Kat will remain a life-long-friend.

---12 Oct 1537:  Uon the birth of Edward VI, Elizabeth is placed in the young prince's household.  At his christening, 15 Oct 1537, she carries the chrisom, or baptismal cloth.  From an early age, Edward and Elizabeth are jointly taught Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, history, philosophy, and maths.

Also, in 1537, Kat becomes Lady Elizabeth's governess, tutoring her in astronomy, geography, history, maths, French, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, needlework, embroidery, dancing, riding, and deportment.  In 1545, Kat will marry John Ashley, Elizabeth's senior gentleman attendant (and a cousin of Anne Boleyn).  Other attendants include Blanche and Thomas Parry.  Blanche teaches Elizabeth her native Welch, and Thomas is in charge of household accounts.

1540-1541:  During the short time that Catherine Howard is Queen, she often has the 8-year-old Elizabeth, who after all is a cousin, in attendance with her.

1543:  After Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, Elizabeth is officially brought back to Court and presumably into Henry VIII's good graces.  At any rate, in his will, she is third in line to the throne behind Edward and Mary.

1544:  William Grindal  (d. 1548) becomes Elizabeth's tutor.  Grindal notes that Elizabeth has already mastered English, Latin, and Italian.  Under his care, she masters French and Greek.

1548-50:  Elizabeth is Roger Ascham's star pupil, receiving tutoring in Latin and Greek.  Elizabet was probably the most well-educated woman of her age (with Mary Queen of Scots a close second.  Mary, however, received an education and upbringing in the Court of France as a future queen consort, not as someone who was preparing to herself reign over a country).

---1547:  Elizabeth is with Edward at the Royal Palace at Enfield when Henry VIII dies.  Two months after Henry's death, Catherine Parr marries Admiral Thomas Seymour (the brother of Jane Seymour).  Elizabeth lives in Chelsea with Catherine and Thomas.  Seymour engages in unseemly romps of a sexual nature with 15-year-old Elizabeth, entering her bedroom in his nightgown, tickling her, and slapping her buttocks.  When Catherine catches Elizabeth in Thomas' embrace, she is sent away.  She is forbidden from appearing in Edward VI's court after this escapade.

---1553:  Mary I rides into London with her half-sister, 15-year-old Elizabeth at her side.

---18 March 1554:  Elizabeth is taken to the Tower of London under suspcion of treason.  On the 22nd of May, she is moved to Woodstock, Oxfordshire, under the care of Sir Henry Bedingfield, and placed under house arrest.

---1558:  Mary I's husband, Philip (later the II of Spain), requests that Mary release Elizabeth from house arrest.  Mary dies 17 Nov 1558.  

15 Jan 1559:  Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England.

Answer 2

Royal children up to modern times have not been raised actually by their parents - some barely knew them.  Elizabeth in particular was sent as a young child, along with her "household" (comprised of several hundred people, from nannies to nurses to cooks to soldiers and guards. . ) to her own 'estate' to live.  Mary was there too, a teenager at the time.  By many accounts Mary was resentful of Elizabeth, because upon Elizabeth's birth, Mary was stripped of her title and much of the luxuries of her life.  Although she always lived as a person of nobility, she didn't enjoy the luxury Elizabeth had.  Although they lived in the same huge house, they had different servants (different 'households') and Mary probably saw little of Elizabeth.

(It is interesting that Princess Diana insisted upon being highly involved in the upbringing of her children William and Henry (Harry) - - something that hadn't been done for centuries and went against tradition!)

I read the Other Boleyn Girl, and while I really admire the author, it is a work of fiction - a lot of it is embellished, exaggerated, conjectured, and downright made up.  It's fiction.

Answer 3

She had her own manor house in the country and a entourage of maids and servants to look after her. She was still the king's daughter, and lived like it!

Answer 4

She was assigned a governess, known as Kat Ashley in most historical accounts, and made to live in the country at Hatfield for most of her youth.

Answer 5

When her mother was executed, Elizabeth's household (she was given her own household, as befits a Princess) was thrown into disarray.  Henry was preoccupied with his new wife, Jane Seymour, and there was nobody to take a close interest in Elizabeth.  Lady Margaret Bryan was her governess, and wrote to her father that she was outgrowing her dresses when she, like her half-sister Mary, were declared illegitimate.  Blanche Parry was one of her nurses, and supposedly taught her Welsh.

When Elizabeth was four years old, she was assigned to the care of Catherine Champernowne, who married John Ashley.  This lady was known as Kat Ashley, and became utterly devoted to the young Princess.  She made sure Elizabeth had a good education, with tutors like Roger Ascham.

Elizabeth's fortunes fluctuated, but when her father died, she was taken into the care of her last stepmother, Katherine Parr, and her new husband, Thomas Seymour.  Living with them in their house in Chelsea, London, Thomas played some very "strange" games with her.

Apart from short periods at court when she was in favour with her father, or her stepmothers asked for Henry's children to be brought there, Elizabeth's home was at Hatfield, and it was here, ultimately, that she heard the news that she was Queen.

Read more here:

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

Elizabeth didn't mention her mother throughout her life, but she wore a ring with portraits of herself and Anne Boleyn within it.

From an Elizabeth I exhibition blurb:

"An exquisite mother of pearl, ruby and diamond ring belonging to Queen Elizabeth I will be one of the star exhibits ... The ring, which bears the initial 'E' in table-cut diamonds, contains miniature enamelled busts of the Queen and her mother, Anne Boleyn, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old. It is believed that the ring was removed from Elizabeth's finger in 1603 and taken to James VI of Scotland in Edinburgh as evidence of her death."

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebD...

http://tudorswiki.sho.com/page/Princess+... (there should be a picture of the ring on this site)

Answer 6

After Anne Boleyn's death, Mary was restored as Henry VIII's heir, and Elizabeth was declared a b*****d.  At that point, Mary would no longer be forced to take care of Elizabeth.  Apparently she had a series of governesses--she ended up in the household of Edward, Henry VIII's son by Jane Seymour, who died less than two weeks after Edward's birth.  

Henry's last wife, Catherine Parr, took Elizabeth into her household, and she lived when then when Catherine remarried after Henry VIII died.

Answer 7

I don't know but I know they had servants and nannies just like now so I am thinking a nannie probably did.

Answer 8

Elizabeth was living in her own household, as was customary for the children of royalty.  Her governess was Lady Margaret Bryan.  it seems that her household was reduced somewhat after her mother's execution.  it is probable that Elizabeth had never spent long in her mother's company, so she would probably not have missed her much.

Lady Margaret Bryan seems to have had trouble looking after Elizabeth after Anne Boleyn's execution.  In August 1636 she wrote that she did not know how to treat Elizabeth now that she had been "put from the degree she was in".  She seems to have had arguments with the steward, Sir John Shelton, who "says he is master of this house."  She had been arguing with Shelton over the eating arrangements for elizabeth.  According to her, he wanted elizabeth to "dine and sup every day at the board of estate" a regime which she considered unsuitable because of the rich food which she would be forced to consume.  The King seems to have paid attention to her, and sent instructions tht Elizabeth should be kept in her chamber and not dine in state.  She also seems to have worried about Elizabeth's clothes. "She has neither gown , nor kirtle, nor petticoat, and no linen for smocks, or sleeves, or handkerchiefs" she wrote.  Elizabeth was teething and this was causing her much pain and misery "I trust to God and her teeth were well graft to leave her grace after another fashion than she is yet" Margaret wrote.

The summer of 1536 was when Catherine (Kat )Champernowne (who later became Kat Ashley)entered Elizabeth's service as one of her gentlewomen.  she would be with Elizabeth for nearly thirty years.  After Margaret Bryan left Elizabeth's household to be put in charge of the baby Prince Edward, in October 1537, Kat became Elizabeth's governess.  Many years later elizabeth paid tribute to Kat's "great labour and pain in bringing me up in learning and honesty."  The bond between them was deep and lasting, and it seems to have been Kat more than anybody else who gave Elizabeth the emotional security which she needed in the hazardous world which followed her mother's disgrace and death.