Why was queen elizabeth...?

Question

why was queen elizabeth single from when she became queen?

Answer 1

Queen Elizabeth 1 was not married but Queen Elizabeth 2 was married the prince Philip.

Answer 2

It's aid that her descision not to wed was purely for reasons of state. By which,if she'd married The King of Spain or any of his subjects,the rule of England would fall under Spain and so on. Therefore, she precluded any and all advances from her parliment or would-be suitors and remained a spinster until her death,which ended the Tudor line and allowed the son of her nemisis,Mary to become the next King of England,James.

Answer 3

she decided that she did not want to be like her sister Mary who suffered great pain when her husband was away with other women. she didnt want to be like her dad who had 6 wives. She didnt want someone other than her to rule.

Answer 4

There are a variety of reasons, and we must put ourselves in the mindset of a 16th century person to understand some of them.  Firstly, Elizabeth I might have associated marriage with death.  Her mother had been executed, and also her stepmother Catherine Howard.  She went to live for a while at a young age with her last stepmother, Katherine Parr (who outlived Henry VIII) and Katherine's husband Thomas Seymour, and endured some very dodgy attentions from said Thomas.  And then, Katherine Parr died in childbirth, as had Jane Seymour - another death.

A foreign husband would have meant foreign influence in English affairs, and England may become a satellite country to another power.  Englishmen did not want this; just before Elizabeth, her half-sister had married Philip of Spain, and had lost Calais among other disasters during her short reign.

An Englishman as a husband would have meant that one noble family would become more powerful than all the other noble families, and would cause in-fighting; Elizabeth would not risk a repeat performance of the Wars of the Roses, a civil war, and so resolved to keep her nobles from access to royal power.

She could have married her great love, Robert Dudley, but he was already married.  When his wife died in suspicious circumstances, it put an end to any hope of marriage there.

"A husband would not have occupied a secondary position, like Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, or Prince Philip, who married the second Elizabeth in 1947. At the time of Elizabeth I, the husband of a reigning Queen could claim the Crown Matrimonial and rule as King during her lifetime. In the case of a foreign husband, this meant the one thing Elizabeth's subjects most hated: foreign influence in English affairs. If, on the other hand, she opted to marry an English noble, she would make him an “overmighty subject” with more power than any subject ought to possess."

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And, generally, this was the way the Elizabethans lived their lives:

"The “Great Chain of Being” meant every person had a fixed place in the social hierarchy.  The wife always gained her status in this chain from her husband, the assumption throughout the chain was that women were inferior and needed the tutelage of her husband."  It was not thought fit or even possible that a woman could rule on her own.

Elizabeth said that she was wedded to her kingdom.  That may have meant that she was married to the only husband who presented no danger to her.

Answer 5

You are referring to Elizabeth I? Back then,a woman had to go solo in order to be all-powerful. A husband would have been able to take over as regnant,because,back then,many men did not believe that a woman could be a powerful monarch. Elizabeth had no wishes to share her power and stayed single.

Answer 6

She was officially single many people believe she had a string of lovers.

Answer 7

" Was she lol , that was a big dress she used to wear lol x*x"

Answer 8

Many reasons have been suggested, and they may all be valid: (1)  She was afraid of s*x and marriage because of the examples of marriage she had witnessed in her own family.  (2) She found it wise politically not to commit herself to the alliance that marriage to any foreign prince would entail.  As long as she remained single, she could maintain a balance between foreign powers by entertaining proposals from whichever side was not getting too powerful at the moment.  (3)  The man she really loved, Robert Dudley, was already married when she became Queen.

She herself once summed up the issue by saying (probably not in these exact words, but close), "Whom could I marry?  An Englishman would be a subject, and a foreigner would be an enemy."

Answer 9

She knew that England would be essentially 'taken over' by her husband.

However, she also had several 'very close male friends' who could never be king or regent because of their status and who were her real loves.  In the end, it was the desire not to be dominated (and we suspect, her syphilis) that won the day.