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Who was the last member of the Royal family that was a Tudor?

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Who was the last member of the Royal family that was a Tudor?

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  1. Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, The Faerie Queene or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.

    None of Henry VIII's children had any children of their own. After Elizabeth I's death in 1603, the crown passed to Henry VII's great-grandson, James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England. The Tudor dynasty was succeeded by the House of Stuart.


  2. Elizabeth I (1558-1603) she was the last Tudor and she didn't have any kids so the Royal crown went to the Stuarts.

  3. Elizabeth I was the last Tudor. She died in 1603 thus begining the reign of the Stuarts.

  4. queen elizabeth the first

  5. Elizabeth I

  6. Definately Elizabeth I

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  7. Elizabeth I of England, 1533–1603

  8. The last ruling Tudor was Elizabeth I.  The Tudor line continued through the Grey's descendants of HenryVIII's sister Mary., and through the Lennox Stuart's descendants of his other sister Margaret.  The two lines came to gether when Arabella Stuart (from Margaret's line) married William Seymour (from Mary's line)  Bothe were imprisoned, but planned a prison break.

    "In 1610, Arabella was in trouble again for planning to marry William Seymour, grandson of Lady Catherine Grey, a younger sister of Lady Jane Grey and a granddaughter of Mary Tudor, younger sister of King Henry VIII and Arabella's ancestress, Margaret Tudor. Although the couple at first denied that any arrangement existed between them, they later married in secret on 22 June 1610 at Greenwich Palace. For marrying without his permission, King James imprisoned them: Arabella in Sir Thomas Perry's house in Lambeth and Seymour in the Tower of London. The couple had some liberty within those buildings, and some of Arbella's letters to Seymour and to the King during this period survive. When the King learned of her letters to Seymour, however, he ordered Arabella's transfer to the custody of William James, Bishop of Durham. Arabella claimed to be ill, so her departure for Durham was delayed.

         "The couple used that delay to plan their escape. Arabella dressed as a man and escaped to Lee (in Kent), but Seymour did not meet her there before their getaway ship was to sail for France. Sara Jayne Steen records that Imogen, the virtuous, cross-dressed heroine of William Shakespeare's play Cymbeline (1610-1611) has sometimes been read as a reference to Arabella.  Seymour did escape from the Tower, but by the time he reached Lee, Arabella was gone, so he caught the next ship to Flanders. Arabella's ship was overtaken by King James's men just before it reached Calais, France, and she was returned to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London. She never saw her husband again and died in the Tower in 1615.

         Seymour married, secondly, Lady Frances Devereux, daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham,daughter of Francis Walsingham, on 3 March 1616 at Drayton Bassett, and had seven children:

    William Seymour (1621–16 June 1642)

    Robert Seymour (1622–1646)

    Henry Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (1626–30 March 1654), married Mary Capell and had issue.

    Lady Mary Seymour (1637–10 April 1673), married Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea and had issue.

    Jane Seymour (1637–23 November 1679), married Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarvan and had issue. Ancestors of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

    Frances Seymour (1642–?)

    John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (1646–29 April 1675)

    So the Tudor line actually continues in the reigning Queen, Elizabeth II.

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