Why is Elizabeth referred to as the Virgin Queen?

Question

Why is Elizabeth referred to as the Virgin Queen?

Answer 1

I think there was also some symbolic parallel to the Virgin Mary, purity and holiness. Elizabeth was seen as the ultimate mother to her subjects just as the V.M is seen as the mother to all christians (well Catholics anyway).

Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I declared herself the Virgin Queen, when she married herself to England after she took the english throne. 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, and whispered his name just before she breathed her last...

Answer 3

they are right about her never having s*x

Answer 4

Maybe she was "cold as a block of ice".... hence virgin because no man want to bed a block of ice!

Answer 5

She was a nut that never had a bolt.

Answer 6

Their is talk of a secret marriage between Robert Dudley and Elizabeth 1, I personally that she was not a virgin, considering her liason I think with one of the Seymour brothers when she was a young girl, quite a scandal at the time. So no I think not!!!

Answer 7

History records that she did not have any sexual relationships.

Answer 8

Elizabeth I was never married and as s*x outside marriage was not acknowledged it is assumed she was a virgin.

Answer 9

She never had s*x hence virgin queen

Answer 10

No s******g for her.

Answer 11

She was a fan of the GOOD olive oil.

Answer 12

she was never married.

Answer 13

Elizabeth I was unmarried and therefore presumed, legally, to be a virgin. Whether she was or wasn't doesn't really matter, legally she was. It is quite likely that she was not, in fact, a virgin, people were far less restricted about s*x in those days.

Answer 14

History tells us she never had a physical relationship with a man

Answer 15

Elizabeth the FIRST was the virgin queen because she never married and pre-marital s*x at that time wasn't even considered a possibility.

Answer 16

Take a look at Phillip!