Who was queen elizabeth 1's closest friend/relative?

Question

Who was queen elizabeth 1's closest friend/relative?

Answer 1

I believe she was very close to Edward (half brother) her stepmother Catherine Parr, her Governess, Lord Dudley and Earl of Essex.

Answer 2

Her best friend was probably Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/queensmen/r...

Answer 3

The man Elizabeth was closest to for most of her life was Robert Dudely, later Earl of Leicester, who died in 1588.  She kept the letter he wrote her just before his death marked "his last letter" which suggests that she still had tender feelings for him at that time.

Her most trusted statesman was William Cecil, who was her chief minister for almost her entire reign, he retired at a great age just a few years before she died.  

Her closest woman friend was her cousin, the Countess of Nottingham, who died at Richmond in February 1603, not long before Elizabeth herself died.  The Queen was present at her deathbed, and her grief was such that she ordered a state funeral and sank into a deep depression from which she never fully recovered.

Answer 4

im not sure but i think his name was billy

Answer 5

I saw the movie and she did have serious lovers and was very loved and admired but loved her power as Queen and refused to marry and share her power! Her best friend was either her lover or her cousin in Scotland. It is a great movie!

Answer 6

The Duke of Lester... read "Kenilworth" by Sir Walter Scott... you will learn everything you could ever want to know about QE1

Answer 7

All but one of Elizabeth's aunts and uncles was dead  before her birth. Her last aunt died when she was 8. Her mother was ordered to be executed by her father when she was 2. Her father never showed her any affection. Her half sister would put her in prison, and her half brother barely tolerated her.

     Catherine Parr married Elizabeth's father just before her tenth birthday and for a few years she may have been the closest thing Elizabeth had to a mother. Her father died when she was 13 and Catherine remarried and Elizabeth moved in with them. When her new husband made sexual advances at the young Elizabeth (age 14) she was sent away. Catherine died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday. The newly widowed husband tried to marry Elizabeth, but he was convicted of treason and executed within 6 months.

     At the age of 19 her half brother, the teenage King died. At the age of 20 her half sister imprisoned her in the tower of London. The executions of the Protestants by burning alive started when she Elizabeth was 21. By this time Elizabeth became queen at age 25 it would be difficult for her to trust anyone.

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   Robert Dudley and Queen Elizabeth were born on the same day and the same year. They were childhood friends. They had some relationship throughout their entire life.

    Sir Walter Scott, Duke of Lester were all friends at one time or another.

   Robert Devereaux was a favorite when Queen Elizabeth was older. There relationship was made into the 1939 movie "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn.

Many of these male friends were also thought to be lovers.

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William Cecil was a trusted confident to QE all of her life. She also trusted her spymaster Francis Walsingham. Cecil was  13 years older and Walsingham was less than 2 years older. In some movies these men are portrayed by considerably older actors.

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  Her only unequivocal lifelong friend was her childhood tutor  Catherine Champernowne , better known by her later, married name of Catherine “Kat” Ashley. It was said that Elizabeth may have been the best educated woman of her time. Kat had a great deal to do with that.

    I don't know if Elizabeth had a friend among her cousins. I never heard of one. One of her cousins, Mary of Guise, who was the mother of Mary Queen of Scots, was rumoured to have been poisoned under the orders of Elizabeth.

Answer 8

And there was Blanche Parry, who was Elizabeth's nanny when she was a baby, and after she grew up was Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber and Keeper of the Queen's jewels. She was in Elizabeth's service for 56 years. It must have been a huge comfort to Elizabeth to have someone who knew her so well and could be trusted 100%.