Elizabeth I Trivia

1. Many historians believe that Elizabeth I suffered from what disorder?

From Quiz The Great Queen : Elizabeth I

Answer: anorexia

After studying reports made by Elizabeth's physicians and reading accounts from people who attended dinners with the Queen, historians began to believe that she was anorexic. One of Elizabeth's physicians wrote, "She is so thin that you can count her bones." Many people that had attended dinners with the Queen said that she barely touched her food. Elizabeth is always described as being extremely thin. All of this has made many historians believe that the Great Queen suffered from anorexia. One website source is www.hnn.us/roundup/archives/42/2005/09 and another website source is www.hup.harvard.edu/books/PSY-complete.html

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: 5' 3" - 5' 5"

From Quiz Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: Anne Boleyn

Elizabeth was born on September 7th 1533 to Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII at Greenwich Palace, London.

From Quiz The Life of Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: She was his niece

Anne Boleyn was also a relative of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII. Anne was beheaded for alleged treason in the form of adultery.

From Quiz Elizabeth Regina: The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: 7th September 1533

Born at 3pm at Greenwich Palace, the baby Elizabeth had inherited her mother's (Anne Boleyn's) coal-black eyes and her father's (Henry VIII's) fair skin.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: Mary I

Mary was Elizabeth's half sister (her mother was Henry VIII's first wife). Edward became king in 1547 after his father died and Mary succeeded him in 1553.

From Quiz The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: Greenwich Palace

All of the palaces above had significance in Elizabeth's mother's life. She married Henry VIII in York Place (which was on the Thames), was resident in Hampton Court Palace during their marriage and grew up at Hever Castle in Kent.

From Quiz England's 'Virgin Queen'

Answer: Henry VIII

She was Henry's daughter by Anne Boleyn.

From Quiz The Great Queen : Elizabeth I

Answer: virginals and the lute

Elizabeth enjoyed music much like her father, Henry VIII, who composed music as well as played it. Elizabeth loved music and encouraged composers at the time.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: semper eadem

This was on the royal coat of arms during her reign. Sometimes the Queen's royal arms were depicted with the standard royal motto of 'Dieu et mon Droit' ('God and my right').

From Quiz Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: King Henry VIII

King Henry VIII born at Greenwich Palace in 1491. Notorious for his 'wild' behaviour and six wives. Changed history by declaring himself head of the Church (in his own realm).

From Quiz The Life of Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Richmond

His mother was Elizabeth Blount.

From Quiz Elizabeth Regina: The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: 42

Henry could not help but be disappointed about the birth of a second daughter, however he was proud of Princess Elizabeth.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: Anne Boleyn & Ann Boleyn

Here's the run down on Henry's wives: 1. Katherine of Aragon - married Henry's brother in 1501/1502 and then married Henry in 1509. Henry divorced her in 1533 because she had not produced a male heir, though she did have Mary I. 2. Anne Boleyn - She was Katherine of Aragon's lady-in-waiting, and she married Henry in 1533. They had Elizabeth I shortly afterwords. Anne was beheaded in 1536. 3. Jane Seymour - Jane married Henry in 1536, right after Anne's death. She gave him his only surviving male heir, the future Edward VI, but died days later in 1537. 4. Anne of Cleves - She married Henry in 1540, but they hated each other on sight. They were divorced within six months, though Anne got a palace and a few other things out of it. 5. Katherine Howard - She was about 20 when she married Henry in 1540, and she had an affair during their two year marriage. She was imprisoned and later beheaded on February 13, 1542. 6. Katherine Parr - She married Henry in 1543, and was married to him at the time of his death in 1547. She married soon after Thomas Seymour, the uncle of Edward VI, but died in childbirth in 1548.

From Quiz The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: Jane Grey

Catherine and Mary were Jane's sisters. Mary was also a good seventeen years older than Elizabeth and Edward.

From Quiz England's 'Virgin Queen'

Answer: Anne Boleyn

Lady Margaret Beaufort was the mother of Henry VII, making her Elizabeth's great-grandmother. She had a key role in orchestrating Henry VII's return to England in 1485, which began the Tudor Dynasty.

From Quiz The Great Queen : Elizabeth I

Answer: The Galliard

Elizabeth loved to dance and she ordered that The Galliard be played every morning so that she may keep herself fit. She loved to dance with her courtiers and was extremely fond of The Volta.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: 25

Elizabeth became Queen of England on November 17, 1558 upon the death of her half-sister Mary I. It was a Thursday when she became Queen. Elizabeth II was also 25 upon her accession to the throne. I find it very interesting that the only two English Queens to be 25 when they became Queen also share the same first name and many of the same interests.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: hold her tongue.

Elizabeth said this when the French ambassador praised her linguistic skills.

From Quiz Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: She was executed

Anne Boleyn was executed May 19th 1536 on the charges of adultery and adultery and incest. Elizabeth was just two years and eight months old, and two days before her mother's execution she was declared illegitimate after her parents' marriage was annulled. Her father Henry VIII married Jane Seymour just 12 days after Anne Boleyn's execution.

From Quiz The Life of Queen Elizabeth I

Answer: September 7

She was born in Greenwich Palace.

From Quiz Elizabeth Regina: The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: Church of the Observant Friars

Elizabeth was christened on 10th September 1533, the usual venue for Royal christenings was the Chapel Royal, but on this occasion was swapped for the Church of the Observant Friars.

From Quiz Elizabeth I

Answer: 3

Mary and Edward were the two who succeeded to the throne, and Elizabeth had another brother, Henry Fitzroy, who was the illegitimate son of Henry VIII. It is possible that there were other half-siblings whose royal parentage was never acknowledged.

From Quiz The Life of Elizabeth I

Answer: Chelsea & Chelsea Palace

Elizabeth was rumored to have had an affair with Thomas Seymour there. When this reached Catherine's ears she quietly sent Elizabeth away. Catherine died later in childbirth, and Thomas was executed for trying to get into the king's bedrooms without his leave.

From Quiz England's 'Virgin Queen'

Answer: two years

Henry had Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn, beheaded on May 19, 1536, ending 'the thousand days' of Anne Boleyn. At the time Elizabeth was not yet three years old.

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